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First Name

John

Last Name

Steinbeck

Date of Birth

27 February 1902

Height

Star Sign

Pisces

Date of Death

20 December 1968

Claim to Fame

One of the greatest American writers of the 20th Century

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Salinas, California, USA

Ethnicity

White

Nationality

American

Place of Death

New York City, New York, USA

Cause of Death

Heart Disease

Couple Profile

John Steinbeck was the third of four children and the only son born to John Ernst and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck. His father was County Treasurer and his mother, a former schoolteacher. John graduated from Salinas High School in 1919 and attended classes at Stanford University, leaving in 1925 without a degree. He was variously employed as a sales clerk, farm laborer, ranch hand and factory worker. In 1925, he traveled by freight from Los Angeles to New York, where he was a construction worker. From 1926-1928, he was a caretaker in Lake Tahoe, CA. His first novel, "Cup of Gold," was published in 1929. During the 1930s, he produced most of his famous novels ("To a God Unknown," "Tortilla Flat," "In Dubious Battle," "Of Mice and Men," and his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Grapes of Wrath"). In 1941, he moved with the singer who would become his second wife to New York City. They had two sons, Thom (b. 1944) and John IV (b. 1946). In 1948, his close friend Ed Ricketts died, he went through a divorce, he took a a tour of Russia, and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His wrote the screenplay for Viva Zapata! (1952), and 17 of his works have been made into movies. He received three Academy Award nominations. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. US President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded him the United States Medal of Freedom in 1964, and he was commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp on what would have been his 75th birthday. His ashes lie in Garden of Memories Cemetery in Salinas.

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www.imdb.com/name/nm0825705/bio

Full Name at Birth

John Ernst Steinbeck

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Father

John Steinbeck Sr

Mother

Olive Hamilton

Friend

Zachary Scott, Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, Spencer Tracy, Joseph Henry Jackson, Ed Ricketts, Pare Lorentz, Henry Fonda, Joan Bennett, Robert Capa

Wikipedia Text

John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 � December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). Author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

Role ID

Writer, Actor/Actress

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