John Steinbeck
27 February 1902 – 20 December 1968
John Steinbeck was an American writer, born in Salinas, California, in 1902. His novels, many set in the agricultural valleys of California, include Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
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Life events
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was born in the Salinas Valley.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSteinbeck studied intermittently for several years and left without taking a degree.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis first marriage lasted until their divorce in 1943.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe short novel about two migrant ranch workers was also staged as a play the same year.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe novel followed a family of Oklahoma tenant farmers migrating to California during the Dust Bowl.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe prize recognised The Grapes of Wrath.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSteinbeck reported from Europe and North Africa during the Second World War.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe multi-generational novel set in the Salinas Valley was one of his longest works.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSteinbeck died of heart disease at the age of 66.
Source: en.wikipedia.org