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John Steinbeck
(1902-1968)
Who Was John Steinbeck?
John Steinbeck was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and the author of Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. Steinbeck dropped out of college and worked as a manual laborer before achieving success as a writer.
His works often dealt with social and economic issues. His 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about the migration of a family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California, won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.
John steinbeck biography sparknotes
Steinbeck served as a war correspondent during World War II, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
Early Life and Education
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California.
Steinbeck was raised with modest means. His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, tried his hand at several different jobs to keep his family fed: He owned a feed-and-grain store, managed a flour plant and served as treasurer of Monterey County.
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