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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1902-02-27 (123 years old)

Place of Birth

Salinas, California, USA

John Steinbeck

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). Author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

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Known For

Acting

2021

2019

2016

Great Literary Tour as Self (archive footage)

2011

John Steinbeck: Voice of America as Himself (Archival Footage)

1961

1952

Writing

2021

2016

2001

The Pearl as Novel

1992

1987

1983

The Winter of Our Discontent as Original Film Writer

1982

Cannery Row as Novel

1981

East of Eden as Novel

1973

The Red Pony as Novel

1972

Topoli as Original Story

1971

The Harness as Short Story

1968

1959

Burning Bright as Theatre Play

1957

1955

East of Eden as Novel

1952

Viva Zapata! as Screenplay

1949

The Red Pony as Writer

1947

The Pearl as Novel
The Pearl as Screenplay

1945

1944

Lifeboat as Story

1943

1942

1941

1940

1939

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The Mouse as Adaptation
East of Eden as Novel