John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968) work includes Of Mice and Men in 1937, The Grapes of Wrath in 1939, Cannery Row in 1945, and East of Eden in 1952. He won a Nobel prize in 1962.

Short Biography:

He first achieved success with Tortilla Flat in 1935, a humorous study of Monterey, California, paisanos (farmers); most of his books deal with the lives of working people. East of Eden was filmed with James Dean. His later work, less highly thought of, includes Winter of our Discontent in 1961.

Why is John Steinbeck famous?

John Steinbeck was an American novelist.

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	American Episcopalians
	American Nobel laureates
	American novelists
	American short story writers
	Writers from California
	John Steinbeck
	Nobel laureates in Literature
	People from Salinas, California
	Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
	Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winners
	American writers of German descent
	Irish-American writers
	Stanford University alumni
	1902 births
	1968 deaths
	20th-century novelists

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John Steinbeck Pictures

 

John Steinbeck Movies
O. Henry`s Full House
John Steinbeck Filmography

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Date Added: 26 June '12

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