JOHN STEINBECK

EARLY LIFE

John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California with his mother Olive Hamilton

Steinbeck, his father John Ernest Steinbeck, and his 3 sisters. John made up his mind that he like to write at the age of 14. He would lock himself in his room

and write poetry and stories.

EARLY CAREER

In 1919 he was enrolled in Stanford. Over the next few years he went in and out of school and he finally

dropped out in 1925 without a degree. He then briefly moved to New York and worked as a

construction worker and Newspaper reporter. Then he moved back to California and worked as a

caretaker in Lake Tahoe. Soon after he wrote his first novel Cup Of Gold.

LATER LIFE

Following that great success, Steinbeck served as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II. He also traveled to

Mexico to collect marine life with his friend Edward F. Ricketts, a marine biologist. Their collaboration resulted in the book Sea of Cortez (1941), which describes the marine life in the Gulf of California. In the last 25 years of his life Steinbeck wrote books including Cannery Row (1945),

Burning Bright (1950), East of Eden (1952), The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), and Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962). In 1962 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died of heart

disease on December 20, 1968, in his New York City

CHILDREN AND SPOUSE

CHILDREN:

Thomas Steinbeck

John Steinbeck IV

SPOUSE:

Elaine Anderson Steinbeck (1950–1968)

Gwyndolyn Conger (1943–1948)

Carol Henning (1930–1943)

BOOKS

The Pastures of Heaven (1932)

To a God Unknown (1933)

Tortilla Flat (1935)

In Dubious Battle (1936)

Mice and Men (1937)

The Long Valley (1938)

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

The Grapes of Wrath sold 10,000 copies a week. It eventually earned Steinbeck a Pulitzer Prize in 1940.

DO YOU REMEMBER?!?!?

This goes out especially to Anton

#1 WHAT B OOK GOT HIM AN AWARD

A: The Pastures of Heaven (1932)

B: To a God Unknown (1933)

C: Flat (1935)

D: In Dubious Battle (1936)

E: Mice and Men (1937)

F: The Long Valley (1938)

G: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

#2 WHAT WAS THE PRIZE HE GOT

A: Pulitzer Prize

B: Nobel Prize

C: Best Author Prize

D: Best Book Prize

E: None

F: All of the Prizes

# 3 W H AT D I D H E W O R K A S I N N E W Y O R K

A: Construction worker and newspaper writer

B: Construction worker

C: Newspaper Reporter

D: Construction worker and newspaper reporter

E: Newspaper writer

F: Caretaker

#4 WHO WERE HIS WIVES

A: Carol Henning, Gwyndolyn Conger, Elaine Anderson Steinbeck

B: Carol Henning, Gwendolyn Conger, Elaine Anderson Steinbeck

C: Henning Carol, Gwyndolyn Conger, Elaine Anderson Steinbeck

D: Carol Henning, Conger Gwendolyn, Elaine Anderson Steinbeck

E: Carol Henning, Gwyndolyn Conger, Elaine Steinbeck Anderson

F: Carol Henning, Gwyndolyn A.Conger, Elaine Anderson Steinbeck

LOOK AT THE…

TV Monitor for the John Steinbeck movie.

ANSWERS…

#1…

G

#2…

A

#3…

D

#4…

A

HOW DID YOU DO?Marina

2/4

Brenda

0/4

Anton

3/4

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