JOHN STEINBECK. EARLY LIFE John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California with his mother Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, his father John.
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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
T H A N K Y O U
A N D C O N T I N U E A G R E A T D A Y
B Y : K E L L Y
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