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Early life John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California with his mother Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, his father John Ernest Steinbeck, and his 3 sisters. John made up his mind that he like to write at the age of 14. He would lock himself in his room and write poetry and stories.
Early Career In 1919 he was enrolled in Stanford. Over the next few years he went in and out of school and he finally dropped out in 1925 without a degree. He then briefly moved to New York and worked as a construction worker and Newspaper reporter. Then he moved back to California and worked as a caretaker in Lake Tahoe. Soon after he wrote his first novel Cup Of Gold.
Later life Following that great success, Steinbeck served as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II. He also traveled to Mexico to collect marine life with his friend Edward F. Ricketts, a marine biologist. Their collaboration resulted in the book Sea of Cortez (1941), which describes the marine life in the Gulf of California. In the last 25 years of his life Steinbeck wrote books including Cannery Row (1945), Burning Bright (1950), East of Eden (1952), The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), and Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962). In 1962 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died of heart disease on December 20, 1968, in his New York City
Children and spouse CHILDREN: • Thomas Steinbeck • John Steinbeck IV SPOUSE: • Elaine Anderson Steinbeck (1950–1968) • Gwyndolyn Conger (1943–1948) • Carol Henning (1930–1943)
books • The Pastures of Heaven (1932) • To a God Unknown (1933) • Tortilla Flat (1935) • In Dubious Battle (1936) • Mice and Men (1937) • The Long Valley (1938) • The Grapes of Wrath (1939) • The Grapes of Wrath sold 10,000 copies a week. It eventually earned Steinbeck a Pulitzer Prize in 1940.
Do you remember?!?!? This goes out especially to Anton
#1 what book got him an award • A: The Pastures of Heaven (1932) • B: To a God Unknown (1933) • C: Flat(1935) • D: In Dubious Battle (1936) • E: Mice and Men (1937) • F: The Long Valley(1938) • G: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
#2 what was the prize he got • A: Pulitzer Prize • B: Nobel Prize • C: Best Author Prize • D: Best Book Prize • E: None • F: All of the Prizes
#3 what did he work as in New York • A: Construction worker and newspaper writer • B: Construction worker • C: Newspaper Reporter • D: Construction worker and newspaper reporter • E: Newspaper writer • F: Caretaker
#4 who were his wives • A: Carol Henning, Gwyndolyn Conger, Elaine Anderson Steinbeck • B: Carol Henning, Gwendolyn Conger, Elaine Anderson Steinbeck • C: Henning Carol, Gwyndolyn Conger, Elaine Anderson Steinbeck • D: Carol Henning, Conger Gwendolyn, Elaine Anderson Steinbeck • E: Carol Henning, Gwyndolyn Conger, Elaine Steinbeck Anderson • F: Carol Henning, Gwyndolyn A.Conger, Elaine Anderson Steinbeck
Look at the… TV Monitor for the John Steinbeck movie.
How did you do? Marina 2/4 Brenda 0/4 Anton 3/4
