John Steinbeck

nobel prize winner 1962

Hester Wiarda 6E

Introduction

Born John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.February 27, 1902Salinas, Califronia, US

Occupation Novelist, Short story writer, War Correspondent

Notable works The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men

Notable awards Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962

Died December 20, 1968 (aged 66)New York, New York, USSteinbeck’s gravestone at Garden of Memories Memorial park in Salinas

Life

• Lived his childhood in Salinas, CA• Son of John Steinbeck Sr and

Olive Hamilton• Worked at ranches• 1919: graduated from Salinas High School• 1925: left Stanford University without degree NYC: journalist at ‘The American’• 1930: Carol Henning • WO2: Journalist at ‘New York Herald Tribune’• 1943: Gwyndolyn Conger, Thom and John• 1950: Elaine Scott

Literary Career

• 16 Novels

• 6 Non-Fictie

• 5 Short Story Collection

• Films

• Theme– Social novels dealing with the economic

problems of rural labour

Novels Cup of Gold • The Red Pony • To a God Unknown •

Tortilla Flat • In Dubious Battle • Of Mice and Men •

The Grapes of Wrath • The Moon Is Down • Cannery Row • The Pearl • The Wayward Bus • Burning Bright •

East of Eden • Sweet Thursday • The Short Reign of Pippin IV • The Winter of Our Discontent •

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Non- Fictie The Log from the Sea of Cortez •

Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team •

A Russian Journal • Once There Was a War •

Travels with Charley • Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters • America and Americans

Short story collection

The Pastures of Heaven • The Long Valley

Films Of Mice and Man • The Grapes of Wrath • Tortilla Flat • Lifeboat • Viva Zapata!

Novels

• First novels attracted little attention– Cup of Gold (1929) The Pastures

of Heaven (1932), To a God Unknown (1933)

• Turning point 1935– Tortilla Flat

• California novels– Of Mice and Man (1937)– The Grapes of Wrath (1939)– East of Eden (1952)

– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqaTv8cCWeg

Non-Fictie

• Ed Ricketts– The Log from the Sea of

Cortez (1941)• Once there was War (1958)• Travelogue

– Travels with Charley (1960)

Steinbeck’s trailer from Travels with Charley

Filmography

• 1939: Of Mice and Men– directed by Lewis Milestone, featuring Burgess

Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., and Betty Field

• 1942: Tortilla Flat– directed by Victor Fleming, featuring Spencer Tracy,

Hedy Lamarr and John Garfield

• 1940: The Grapes of Wrath– directed by John Ford, featuring Henry Fonda, Jane

Darwell and John Carradine

Nobel Prize

• 1962:Nobel Prize for literature

– “realistic and imaginative writing, combining as it does sympathetic humor and keen social perception.”

The End