John Steinbeck

  • John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in the town of Salinas, California.

  • Steinbeck has produced an interest in non-fictional universally great books, such as the Bible, philosophical literature of ancient India, and Greek historians.

  • He attended Stanford University for five years as an English major, without taking a degree.

  • Before beginning courses at Stanford he worked as an assistant chemist in a sugar-beet factory nearby. During the intervals of attendance at Stanford he was employed on ranches and road-building gangs.

  • Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, honored, according to the official wording, for his "realistic and imaginative writings, distinguished as they are by a sympathetic humor and a social perception

    List Of Major Works:

    Cup of Gold, 1929;
    The Pastures of Heaven, 1932
    To a God Unknown, 1933
    Tortilla Flat, 1935
    In Dubious Battle, 1936
    The Red Pony, 1937
    Of Mice and Men, 1937
    The Long Valley, 1938
    The Grapes of Wrath, 1939
    Sea of Cortez, 1941
    Bombs Away, 1942
    The Moon Is Down, 1942
    Cannery Row, 1945
    The Pearl, 1947
    The Wayward Bus, 1947
    East of Eden, 1952
    Sweet Thursday, 1954
    The Short Reign of Pippin IV, 1957
    The Winter of Our Discontent, 1961
    Travels with Charley, 1962