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1 JOHN STEINBECK “I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.” -Steinbeck

2 EARLY LIFE  Born February 27, 1902 in Salinas, CA.  Salinas is the heart of the agricultural industry here in California.  California’s agricultural land is the setting for most of Steinbeck’s literature.  His father was a county controller and his mother was a teacher.  At 14, he decided to become a writer and would lock himself into his room writing short stories.

3 COLLEGE YEARS  Steinbeck attended Stanford in Northern California to study Marine Biology.  Unfortunately, he did not graduate moved to NYC to begin his career as a writer and reporter  He was fired from his reporting job and found little success as a writer.  He moved back to California

4 EARLY WORKS OF LITERATURE  In Lake Tahoe he worked as a caretaker, along with many other jobs.  Here he wrote his first novel Cup of Gold, about a Jamaican pirate in 1929.

5 LOVE  Not soon after he met and married his first wife, Carol who helped support him financially as he struggled to begin his career as a writer.  Steinbeck was quite the lover, he was married three times in all.

6 Accomplishments  Tortilla Flats: 1 st successful novel about life in Monterey, California.  Published in 1935  Of Mice and Men: other successes included a more serious tone.  Published in 1937

7 Accomplishments: The Grapes of Wrath  1939, Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, the story of an Oklahoma family who moved to California and struggled to survive during The Great Depression.  Earned the Pulitzer Prize, one of the highest honors an author can achieve.  Banned from 1939-1941 in Kern County Board of Supervisors

8 MIDDLE YEARS  During World War II, Steinbeck worked as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune.  Traveled to Mexico with a friend, who was a marine biologist, to collect sea life. He based these experiences for his writing of Sea of Cortez.  Sea of Cortez, describes sea life in the Gulf of California.

9 WHY THE CONTROVERSY?  Steinbeck was an advocate for the underprivileged.  His writing reflected certain struggles and inequalities of America that did not sit well with many Americans.  His popularity in America lacked.  Very popular in Europe.

10 LATER WORKS OF LITERATURE  Last 25 years of his life he wrote many great novels such as Cannery Row in 1945.  East of Eden, 1952 and Travels with Charlie, 1962  1962: Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (highest honors that a writer can achieve)

11 DEATH  1968: Steinbeck died of heart disease in New York City on December 20 at the age of 66.

12 Additional Resources  www.steinbeck.org (learn more biography here) www.steinbeck.org  Steinbeck Museum located in Salinas, CA.  www.nobelprize.org (The offical website of the Nobel Prize) www.nobelprize.org

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