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His mother, the strong-willed Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, was a former teacher. As a child growing up in the fertile Salinas Valley —called the "Salad Bowl of the Nation" — Steinbeck formed a deep appreciation of his environment, not only the rich fields and hills surrounding Salinas, but also the nearby Pacific coast where his family spent ...
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Olive Hamilton was the mother of the Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck. Olive Hamilton was born in 1866 or 1867 in San Jose, California. She was the daughter of Samuel Hamilton and Elizabeth (Fagen) Hamilton. Olive was the youngest of five daughters in a total of nine children of a Salinas blacksmith who did well for himself and the family....
Parents, Samuel, (b. in Northern Ireland) & Elizabeth (b. in New York) "Liza" Fagan Hamilton. Her parents were married in New York in 1849.
"United States Census, 1880", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6P9-CJB: Fri Oct 06 09:12:14 UTC 2023), Entry for Samuel Hamilton and Eliza Hamilton, 1880."United States Census, 1910", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVLX-THJ: Wed Oct 04 08:03:51 UTC 2023), Entry for John E Steinback and Olive B Steinback, 1910.SOURCE : "BillionGraves Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2VZ9-F2G: accessed 07 May 2014), Olive Steinbeck, 1934; citing Garden of Memories Cemetery, Salinas, Cal...- Female
- December 11, 1866
- Johann Ernst Steinbeck Sr
- February 19, 1934
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Apr 2, 2014 · American novelist John Steinbeck was known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” as well as “Of Mice and Men” and “East of Eden.”
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Early life. John Ernst Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California, the only son of John Ernst Steinbeck Sr. and Olive Hamilton. His father was a bookkeeper and accountant who served for many years as the treasurer of Monterey County, California.
Steinbeck’s mother, born Olive Hamilton, was a former school teacher who enforced high academic standards for her children and encouraged a love of literature. John Steinbeck had three sisters: two older sisters Esther and Beth, and a younger sister Mary, whom Steinbeck was close to throughout their childhood together.
Jun 18, 2003 · From those qualities, which in fact did help insure Hamilton family poverty, Steinbeck creates a legend, an heroic figure whose language is likened to music, whose stature is etched against the sky, whose wisdom runs as deep as the wells he digs.
Sep 19, 2021 · Steinbeck presented several paragraphs in East of Eden describing the responsibilities that the character Olive Hamilton, modeled after his mother, had as a teacher in the rural one-room schoolhouse of California. In her school there were pupils older and bigger than she was. It required great tact to be a schoolteacher.
