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Mar 11, 2024 · The crowning jewel of the collection, Steinbeck’s personal, unpublished journal from 1949, sold for $70,000. The journal begins with Steinbeck recording his misery as 1948 drew to a close, shortly before he began writing his masterpiece, East of Eden. “I don’t suppose anyone has ever so hated a year as I hated 1948,” he wrote.
Jeho otec John Ernst Steinbeck (1862–1934), který pracoval jako správce mlýna a později pokladník okresu Monterey, pocházel z rodiny německých přistěhovalců. Jeho dědeček si po emigraci do Spojených států změnil původní příjmení Großsteinbeck na Steinbeck. Matka Olive, rozená Hemiltonová (1867–1934) měla irské ...
John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California, a region that became the setting for much of his fiction. As a teenager, he spent his summers working as a hired hand on neighboring ranches, where his experiences of rural California and its people impressed him deeply. In 1919, he enrolled at Stanford University, where he studied ...
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (/ ˈ s t aɪ n b ɛ k /; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Some of his most famous works are Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), which won a Pulitzer Prize .
Mar 28, 2006 · The Grapes of Wrath. Paperback – March 28, 2006. by John Steinbeck (Author), Robert DeMott (Introduction) 4.6 22,139 ratings. Teachers' pick. See all formats and editions. The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved ...
May 18, 2024 · John Steinbeck (1902–1968) was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, and short-story writer. His best-known works include "Of Mice and Men" and "The Grapes of Wrath." He wrote a series of short stories set in his hometown of Monterrey, California, about the harsh lives of migrant workers there.
John Steinbeck, American author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, was a leading writer of novels about the working class and was a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression (a downturn in the American system of producing, distributing, and using goods and services in the 1930s, and during which time millions of people lost their jobs).
