John Ernst Steinbeck Biography
A famous Californian writer John Ernst Steinbeck started his career on the based of primary stories in Northern and Central California. John Ernst Steinbeck was best recognized for the novels Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and East of Eden (1952), by the side of with numerous short stories. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for” The Grapes of Wrath”. In 1962 and he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here are some personal, family details and achievements.
About John Ernst Steinbeck
Personal Details
Name: John Ernst Steinbeck
Birth Date: February 27, 1902
Death Date: December 20, 1968
Place of Birth: Salinas, California, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Occupations: Novelist, Short story writer, War reporter
Family Details
Father: John Ernst Steinbeck (1863-1935), District Treasurer
Mother: Olive Hamilton Steinbeck (1867-1934), Teacher
Sisters: Elizabeth Steinbeck Ainsworth, Esther Steinbeck Rodgers,Mary Steinbeck Dekker
Wife’s: Carol Henning Steinbeck Brown (Married 1930, Divorced 1942), Died in 1983
Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck (Married 1943, Divorced 1948),Died in 1975
Elaine Anderson Scott Steinbeck (Married 1950), Died Apr 27, 2003 in New York.
Sons: Thomas Steinbeck , John Steinbeck IV
(Child of John Ernst Steinbeck and Gwyndolyn)
Achievement
Notable Novels: The Grapes of Wrath,Of Mice and Men
Notable Awards : Nobel Prize in1962 for Literature
John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California of US on February 27, 1902. Steinbeck’s parents were middle-class citizens of Salinas. His father, John Steinbeck, Sr., served as the County Treasurer and his mother, Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, a former school teacher who fostered him to love of reading and the written word. John Steinbeck himself regularly worked as a laborer on near farms. He spent so much of his time in Monterey county in California, which later on was the setting of some of his creative writing. Steinbeck attended Stanford University of California, irregularly between 1920 and 1926, but could not take a degree. He made the decision to try making his living at writing, first in New York and then back in California. His first novel, Cup of Gold was published in 1929, but it got a little attention. His two following novels, The Pastures of Heaven and To a God Unknown, also got poor response by the literary world.
Steinbeck wrote in the naturalist style, a lot about poor, working-class people. His most famous novel “The Grapes of Wrath” tells the story about the movement of the poor family, driven from its small piece of land in Oklahoma to California, and their successive struggles in California. It is understood as a novel in argument of the poor as against the rich. The book has been compared to that of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s” Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. In 2001,The book listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century selected by board of the American Modern Library. He wrote a total twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In began with the publication of “In Dubious Battle (1936)”, John Ernst Steinbeck standing as an advocate for farm labor organization which counts as a efforts of farm labor organizers during a fruit pickers strike. His next novel “Of Mice and Men (1937)” was first conceived as a stage play and produced at the same time as a play and as a novel. The play received the Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and the novel, the forceful story of two traveling farm hands, resolutely recognized Steinbeck as a major Californian writer. Steinbeck’s novels can all be the record of as social novels trade with the economic problems of rural labor, but there is also a line of worship of the soil in his books.
John Ernst Steinbeck died in December 20, 1968 (In only 66 year) at New York City and is survived by his third wife, Elaine Anderson Scott Steinbeck and first son, Thomas. His ruins were placed in the graveyard (Garden of Memories) in Salinas. Mission of The National Steinbeck Center (located in John Steinbeck’s hometown of Salinas, a scenic 17-mile drive from Monterey, in California the heart of Steinbeck) is to tell the story of John Steinbeck’s rich legacy and to present experiences in literature and history, agriculture and art, as well special events.
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