John Ernst Steinbeck

A giant of American letters

John Steinbeck in 1935 — John Steinbeck was an American novelist who is best known for his works set during the Great Depression era.

John Steinbeck's Timeline

1902
Born in Salinas, California.
1919
Graduated from Salinas High School.
1925
Traveled to New York city after he left Stanford University.
1928
Returned to California and worked as a tour guide and caretaker at Lake Tahoe where he met his first wife.
1929
Published his first novel Cup of Gold.
1935
After he produced three shorter works, he achieved his first critical success with Tortilla Flat.
1936
He begun to write about the migrant agricultural workers and that was presented in his well-known works In Dubious Battle and Of Mice and Men.
1939
He wrote his greatest work The Grapes of Wrath; focusing on the migrant workers, made his novel to be the best selling book of this year.
1940
Won the National Book Award of favorite fiction book and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
1943
Served as a World War II war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune.
1945
He wrote Cannery Row, which is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California.
1948
Wrote a Russian journal book about his experiences of his first trip to the Soviet Union during the communist revolution.
1952
Published his longest novel East of Eden, deals with the nature of good and evil.
1960
He made a journey around the United States with his poodle Charley. After two years, he wrote about this trip in his travelogue Travels with Charley: In Search of America.
1962
Won the Nobel Prize for literature.
1964
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1967
He went to Vietnam to report on the war.
1968
Died of heart disease in New York City.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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