Biography Of John Steinbeck

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Biography of John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902 of
German and Irish ancestry.  He was the third of four children and the only son born to John Ernst and Olive H. Steinbeck. His father, John Steinbeck, Sr., served as the County Treasurer while his mother, Olive (Hamilton) Steinbeck, a former school teacher, fostered Steinbeck’s love of reading and the written word.  During summers he worked as a hired hand on nearby ranches, nourishing his impression of the California countryside and its people.
     After graduating from Salinas High School in 1919, Steinbeck attended Stanford University.  Originally an English major, he pursued a program of independent study and his attendance was poor.  During this time he worked periodically at various jobs and left Stanford permanently in 1925 to pursue his writing career in New York.  However, he was unsuccessful in getting any of his writing published and finally returned to California.
     Steinbeck’s best-known fiction explores the struggles of poor people.  His first novel, Cup of Gold,  is based on the life of Sir Henry Morgan, a famous English pirate of the 1600s; it was published in 1929, but attracted little attention.  His two subsequent novels, The Pastures of Heaven and To a God Unknown, were also poorly received by the literary world.  In The Pastures of Heaven, Steinbeck focuses on the struggle between human beings and nature.  Both works were poorly received by the literary world.
     Steinbeck married his first wife, Carol Henning in 1930, which later ended in divorce in 1942.  They lived in Pacific Grove where much of the material for Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row was gathered.  Tortilla Flat, (1935) which deals with migrant workers and poor farmers, marked the turning point in Steinbeck’s literary career.  It received the California Commonwealth Club’s Gold Medal for best novel by a California author.  Steinbeck continued writing, counting upon extensive research and his personal o...

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