1. John Steinbeck
By: Carlee Campbell
Period 4
May 4th 2009

2. When was he born? And when he Died?
• John was born in February 27, 1902.
• He was born in Salinas, California.
• Steinbeck died on December 20, 1968.
• His ashes were put in Salinas in the Garden Of Memories.

3. What are a few books he wrote?
• The Grapes of the air
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Zapata
• Working Days The Journals of Grapes of Wrath
• The Winter of Disconnect
• The Wayward Bus
• Viva Zapata! The original Screenplay
• Tortilla Flat
• To God Unknown
• The Pearl
• Of Mice and Men
• The red Pony

4. Family
• Father: John Steinbeck Sr.
• Mother: Olive Steinbeck
• 1st Wife: Carol Henning
• 2nd Wife: Gwyndolyn Steinbeck
• 3rd Wife: Elaine Scott
• With #2 wife he had his 2 kids. Thomas Myles
Steinbeck (1944). John Steinbeck IV (1946).
• 3 Sisters Mary, Beth, and Esther.

5. Education
• Salinas High School in 1919
• Stanford University with English degree

6. Jobs
• Studied marine life in Monterey Bay
• Laborer in a sugar factory in Salinas
• John worked at various jobs
• Writing career in New York
• A laborer in mills
• Wrote books

7. Awards he won
• 1937 Won New York Drama Critics
• Award
• 1940 Pulitzer Prize for The
• Grapes of Wrath
• 1946 King Haakon Liberty Cross,
• a Norwegian award
• 1948 Elected to American Academy of Arts of Letters
• 1962 Receives Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1964 Awarded United States Medal of Freedom by
President Johnson
• 1966 John Steinbeck Society organized
• 1974 Steinbeck's boyhood opened as a museum

8. Bibliography
”About John Steinbeck” John Steinbeck’s Bibliography 1999.
http://www.steinbeck.org/Bio.html
“Books and Writers” John Steinbeck (1902-1968)2008.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/johnstei.htm
“Nobel Prizes” John Steinbeck The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962 2009.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/steinbeck-
bio.html