John Steinbeck Biography
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Where and when was he born?
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In Salinas, California on February 27, 1902
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Who was he named after?
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his father
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What was his father's profession?
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he was a county treasurer
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What was his mother's profession and what did she inspire?
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she was a school teacher who inspired his love of literature
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What job did he have in the summertime when he was older? Where?
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a hired hand on nearby ranches
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What happened when he worked as a ranch hand?
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The job gave him a good impression of what these people's lives were like and the people themselves
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When and where did he graduate from?
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in 1919 he graduated from Salinas High School
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Where did he attend college?
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Stanford University
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What major did he do originally and what happened?
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He was an English major, but he didn't attend class regularly
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What year did he leave Stanford and where did he go? Why?
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He left in 1925 to pursue his writing career in New York
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What happened when he got to New York?
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He was unsuccessful in getting his writing published so he came back to California
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What and when was his first book published?
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\"Cup of Gold\" was published in 1929
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Who was his first wife and when did he marry her?
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Carol Henning; in 1930
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Where did he live with his first wife?
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in Pacific Grove
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What did his life with his wife give him?
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The resources for a book called \"Tortilla Flat\" in 1935
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What award did he receive for \"Tortilla Flat\"?
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received the California commonwealth club's gold medal for best novel by a California author
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What did he rely upon for his books?
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extensive research and his personal observation of the human condition
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When did he write \"Of Mice and Men\"?
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in 1937
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When did he write \"Grapes of Wrath\"?
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in 1939
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What prize did he win and what year did he win it?
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the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for \"Grapes of Wrath\"
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When did he win the Nobel Prize?
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1962
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What did he do during World War 2?
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he was a war correspondent for the New York Harold's tribune
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What book was published in 1961?
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\"The Winter of our Discontent\"
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What type of person was Steinbeck?
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He was a very private person who shunned publicity
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When and where did he die?
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On December 20, 1968 in New York City.
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Where were his ashes taken?
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back to Salinas, California in the Garden of Commemories
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Transcendentalism
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a philosophy which says that thought and spiritual things are more real than ordinary human experience and material things
