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John Steinbeck
nobel prize winner 1962
Hester Wiarda 6E
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Introduction
Born John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.February 27, 1902Salinas, Califronia, US
Occupation Novelist, Short story writer, War Correspondent
Notable works The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men
Notable awards Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962
Died December 20, 1968 (aged 66)New York, New York, USSteinbeck’s gravestone at Garden of Memories Memorial park in Salinas
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Life
• Lived his childhood in Salinas, CA• Son of John Steinbeck Sr and
Olive Hamilton• Worked at ranches• 1919: graduated from Salinas High School• 1925: left Stanford University without degree NYC: journalist at ‘The American’• 1930: Carol Henning • WO2: Journalist at ‘New York Herald Tribune’• 1943: Gwyndolyn Conger, Thom and John• 1950: Elaine Scott
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Literary Career
• 16 Novels
• 6 Non-Fictie
• 5 Short Story Collection
• Films
• Theme– Social novels dealing with the economic
problems of rural labour
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Novels Cup of Gold • The Red Pony • To a God Unknown •
Tortilla Flat • In Dubious Battle • Of Mice and Men •
The Grapes of Wrath • The Moon Is Down • Cannery Row • The Pearl • The Wayward Bus • Burning Bright •
East of Eden • Sweet Thursday • The Short Reign of Pippin IV • The Winter of Our Discontent •
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Non- Fictie The Log from the Sea of Cortez •
Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team •
A Russian Journal • Once There Was a War •
Travels with Charley • Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters • America and Americans
Short story collection
The Pastures of Heaven • The Long Valley
Films Of Mice and Man • The Grapes of Wrath • Tortilla Flat • Lifeboat • Viva Zapata!
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Novels
• First novels attracted little attention– Cup of Gold (1929) The Pastures
of Heaven (1932), To a God Unknown (1933)
• Turning point 1935– Tortilla Flat
• California novels– Of Mice and Man (1937)– The Grapes of Wrath (1939)– East of Eden (1952)
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqaTv8cCWeg
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Non-Fictie
• Ed Ricketts– The Log from the Sea of
Cortez (1941)• Once there was War (1958)• Travelogue
– Travels with Charley (1960)
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Steinbeck’s trailer from Travels with Charley
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Filmography
• 1939: Of Mice and Men– directed by Lewis Milestone, featuring Burgess
Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., and Betty Field
• 1942: Tortilla Flat– directed by Victor Fleming, featuring Spencer Tracy,
Hedy Lamarr and John Garfield
• 1940: The Grapes of Wrath– directed by John Ford, featuring Henry Fonda, Jane
Darwell and John Carradine
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Nobel Prize
• 1962:Nobel Prize for literature
– “realistic and imaginative writing, combining as it does sympathetic humor and keen social perception.”
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The End