Opinion - The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961. Steinbeck was an American novelist and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare's Richard III: "Now is the winter of our discontent... " However, ours is not the winter of discontent; ours is a winter of sorrows. The devastation and sorrow that Covid-19 has caused since its outbreak last year but especially in these last two months are beyond compare.
