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   John Ernst Steinbeck (/ ˈ s t aɪ n b ɛ k / STYNE-bek; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer.He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception".

   • Died: December 20, 1968 (aged 66), New York City, U.S.

   • Born: John Ernst Steinbeck II, February 27, 1902, Salinas, California, U.S.

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   Apr 9, 2024 · John Steinbeck (born February 27, 1902, Salinas, California, U.S.—died December 20, 1968, New York, New York) was an American novelist, best known for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression decade and aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farmworkers. He received the Nobel Prize ...

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   Who was John Steinbeck?

   • John Steinbeck was born in the farming town of Salinas, California on 27 February 1902. His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, was not a terribly successful man; at one time or another he was the manager of a Sperry flour plant, the owner of a feed and grain store, the treasurer of Monterey County.

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   Who is John Steinbeck in Sea of Cortez?

   • Quipped New York Times critic Lewis Gannett, there is, in Sea of Cortez, more "of the whole man, John Steinbeck, than any of his novels": Steinbeck the keen observer of life, Steinbeck the scientist, the seeker of truth, the historian and journalist, the writer.

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   What is Steinbeck's California fiction about?

   • Steinbeck's California fiction, from To a God Unknown to East of Eden (1952) envisions the dreams and defeats of common people shaped by the environments they inhabit.

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   How did John Steinbeck die?

   • John Steinbeck died in New York City, where his writing career had begun, on December 20, 1968, during the 1968 flu pandemic of heart disease and congestive heart failure. He was 66, and had been a lifelong smoker. An autopsy showed nearly complete occlusion of the main coronary arteries.

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   Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about the life and works of John Steinbeck, a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who wrote Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. Find out how he became a writer, served as a war correspondent, and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

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   Learn about the life and works of John Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and other classics. Explore his childhood, education, influences, and themes in his fiction.

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   Learn about the life and work of John Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize-winning American writer of novels, stories, and essays. Explore his friendship with Ed Ricketts, his philosophies, his nature and humanity themes, his film The Forgotten Village, and more.

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   John Steinbeck, (born Feb. 27, 1902, Salinas, Calif., U.S.—died Dec. 20, 1968, New York, N.Y.), U.S. novelist.Steinbeck intermittently attended Stanford University ...

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   Learn about the life and works of John Steinbeck, the American author of novels such as The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden. Find study guides, quotes, and analysis of his major themes and style.

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