John Steinbeck

Cecilia Donohue (Independent Scholar - North America)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 27 Feb 1902
Died 20 Dec 1968
Activity 1929-1968

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Letter-writer/ Diarist
Novelist
Story-writer
Travel writer

Resources

Steinbeck's Works

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As a prizewinning author of at least four major novels and several short stories and novellas of note, as well as nonfiction works in multiple genres and notably important contributions to journalism, John Steinbeck was a “household name” both in the United States and abroad throughout the middle and late twentieth century. His works remain popular to this day. Middle school students are highly likely to read

The Pearl

The Red Pony

in language arts classrooms. High school students are assigned

The Grapes of Wrath

and

Of Mice and Men

as required texts. And this month (July, 2003), American talk show icon Oprah Winfrey selected

East of Eden

as the initial novel for her resurrected, classics-focused book discussion series. Where Steinbeck has largely disappeared is on…

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Citation: Donohue, Cecilia. "John Steinbeck". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 July 2003 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4208, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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