JohnSteinbeck

• **//Personal Life//** ~Was born Februrary 27, 1902. ~Was born in [|Salinas], [|California]. ~He died December 20 1968 of arteriosclerosis at age 66. ~Studied mairne biology but didnt get a degree because he always wanted to be a writer ~In 1950 he married Elaine Scott. ~Had one son, John, later had problems with drungs and alcohol and died in 1991

• **//Professional Life//** ~Went to Stanford University ~Went to New York to be a free-lace writer but he fail and went back to California

• **//Major works//** ~//The Grapes of Wrath// published 1939 ~//Cup of Gold// published 1929 ~//Of Mice and Men// published 1937 ~//Cannery Row// published 1945 ~//East of Eden// published 1952

• **//Awards won//** ~ Won the National Book Award for //The Grapes or Wrath// ~ Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962

• **//Period and/or Style//** ~Modern Period mainly wrote about the great depression and about migratory worker

• **//Favorite Themes//** ~Fequently worte about the plight of the misfits. ~The homeless and hopeless in a fast changing America. ~Wrote about the economic problems of rural labour.