Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)
A native Californian, writer John Steinbeck built his career on stories based primarily in Northern and Central California, around his hometown of Salinas, near Monterey. B...
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John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968), American author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, was a leading exponent of the proletarian novel and a prominent spokesman for the victims of the Great Depressi...
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John Ernst Steinbeck was in the course of his mixed career a common laborer, world traveler, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and playwright. Although he will be most importantly remembered for...
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Throughout a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing social forces ...
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John Steinbeck has the seemingly oxymoronic distinction of having been both a Nobel laureate and best-selling author and yet also one of the most underrated and misunderstood American authors of the t...
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John Steinbeck may not be known for his work as a nature writer, at least in the sense of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, or Annie Dillard, but much of his work develops character...
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Biography EssayThrough a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing so...
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"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature." With this declaration, John Steinbeck accepted the Nobel Prize...
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The Great Depression was a period of struggle and anguish for citizens across the United States of America. Nevertheless the most alarming phase in American history produced some great artists, one o...
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John Steinbeck was born in Salinas California on February 27, 1902. His parents were originally from Europe and then moved to California. The fact that his father was a teacher helped John very much t...
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John Steinbeck uses the theme that greed can do bad things people. In the books The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and The Red Pony he uses events in his writing to prove his point. Kino is obsessed with k...
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Miss Amy feel that she is not good enough and can't meet the standard in Johnny Bear by John Steinbeck. She feels that the town expects her to be a role model for children, expects her to set the sta...
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The Life of John Steinbeck
The author John Steinbeck faced many obstacles and accomplishments during his education and his career as an author. John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California ...
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"Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect."
John Morley
"Cannery Row in Monterey in California, is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a hab...
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Capitalist-Communist Clash
Even though John Steinbeck was very patriotic, many perceived him as a communist. This was because in his book, In Dubious Battle, he portrays two men, Mac and Jim, who a...
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John Steinbeck uses his book Cannery Row to show how friendship is imperative for a delightful life. He uses symbolism and events to prove his theme.
One of the events that occur in Cannery Row i...
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Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)
John Ernst Steinbeck
John (Ernst) Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
