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Dec 20, 2018 · John Steinbeck: A flawed genius. It’s the 50th anniversary of the death of Steinbeck, who will be the subject of a new biography in 2019. The Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath ...
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- East of Eden (1952) This 1952 novel is a book of Biblical scope and intensity. In telling the multi-generational stories of the Hamilton and Trask families, Steinbeck also tells the story of the Salinas valley, observed from afar as it changes with the passage of time.
- The Grapes of Wrath (1939) Set during the Great Depression, this classic historical fiction novel has a tumultuous past: banned from a number of schools and libraries when first published, it went on to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and sell more than 15 million copies.
- The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) The Winter of Our Discontent was Steinbeck’s final novel. It takes place in a small East Coast town, where Ethan Allen Hawley must come to terms with his personal failings, as well as the moral cost inherent in ‘rising’ in the world.
- Of Mice and Men (1937) Another of Steinbeck’s popular works regularly taught in schools, this heartbreaking novella takes us back to California in the years of the Great Depression.
Oct 25, 2024 · John Steinbeck, American novelist, best known for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression decade and aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farmworkers. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
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Apr 2, 2014 · American novelist John Steinbeck was known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” as well as “Of Mice and Men” and “East of Eden.”
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Feb 22, 2008 · Answer: John Steinbeck died of heart failure on 20 December 1968, in New York, N.Y, United States. On 4 March 1969, his ashes were buried in the Garden of Memories cemetery in Salinas in the Hamilton Family plot. First published 22 February 2008.
Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. John Steinbeck. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962. Born: 27 February 1902, Salinas, CA, USA. Died: 20 December 1968, New York, NY, USA. Residence at the time of the award: USA.
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He died in New York City in 1968. From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969. This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel.
