JOHN STEINBECK BIOGRAPHY

BORN AND RAISED

• John Steinbeck was born in 1902.
• He grew up in Salinas Valley, California.

STEINBECK'S AWARDS

• His Novel, The Grapes of Wrath, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
• In 1962 Steinbeck was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature.

SPARKS OF INTEREST

• Steinbeck wrote many short stories and put them in the paper.
• Later on in college, he was the Stanford Spectator.
• His interests began when he started to write the school paper.

WRITING AND WORKING

• He faced the hard truth of the working class.
• Steinbeck worked as a manual laborer.
• This is how he supported his expenses.

WRITING STYLE

• The settings are always authentic.
• The setting in all of his books are all similar.
• Steinbeck focuses around the working class.

EARLY LITERATURE EXPOSER

• Steinbeck's parents had a wide variety of literature in their house
• He eventually attended Stanford for English, but never received his degree
• His parents exposed him to many cultures.

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