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JOHN STEINBECK
Lifespan:
February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. studied English literature
at
Stanford University though
he left without a degree in
1925. He then traveled to New York City where he took
odd jobs while trying to write. However, he failed to
publish his work returning to California to work as a tour
guide and caretaker at Lake Tahoe. The first novel of
Steinbeck,
Cup of Gold, was
published in 1929. He first
achieved critical success with
Tortilla Flat in
1935. It was
later adapted as a 1942 film of the same name. Steinbeck
wrote
33 books in his career including
16 novels, 6 non-fiction books and
2
collections of short stories. His masterpiece
The Grapes of Wrath was published
in
1939 and went on to win the
National Book Award and
Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
In 1962, John Steinbeck won the
Nobel Prize for literature for his
“realistic and
imaginative writing, combining as it does sympathetic humor and keen social
perception.” John Steinbeck is regarded as
one of the greatest American authors of
the 20th century. Several of his works are considered
classics of Western
literature and are required reading in American high schools.
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