"For the most part, Steinbeck who grew up with three sisters, had a happy childhood. He was shy, but smart, and formed an early appreciation for the land, and in particular California's Salinas Valley," according to bio.com. In 1919 he enrolled in Stanford Univ., but he after six years of going in and out he finally dropped out of college in1925. Then he went to New York City to be a free lance writer.
