("John Steinbeck-, -John Steinbeck Biography-) As a boy, John grew up in a middle class family. ... ("John Steinbeck- , "John Steinbeck Biography-) John also did other work during the summers and other times he was away from college. ... John was awarded the California Commonwealth Club's Gold Medal for best novel by a California author that year. ... ("John Steinbeck Biography- , "John Steinbeck- , "Steinbeck, John (Ernst)-) John had left New York in the early 1940's and he lived the rest of his life in New York City and on Long Island in New York. ... ("Steinbeck, John (Er...

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An American author and winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for literature, John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr., b. ... Groliers new encylopidea Benson, Jackson T., The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography (1990); DeMott, R., ed., Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989); Fensch, Thomas, ed., Conversations with John Steinbeck (1988); Lisca, Peter, The Wide World of John Steinbeck (1981); Noble, Donald R., ed., The Steinbeck Question: New Essays in Criticism (1992); Owens, Louis, John Steinbeck's Re-Vision of America (1985); Parini, Jay, John Steinbeck (1995); Steinbeck, ...

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John Steinbeck is an author that most people are familiar with. ... You will find all those answers and more when you read this biography of John Steinbeck, and then learn what happened to him in his own hometown. John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas Valley, which was located in Monterey County. He was raised by his father, John Erst Steinbeck, who was the county's treasurer, and by his mother, Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, who was a teacher. ... As what I hope you can see by my research, John Steinbeck was an interesting and brilliant man. ...

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"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ," - John Steinbeck. ... This is Steinbeck's story as told through his biography, literary works, life experiences, and his legacy. John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California (Webster 1338). ... He was in his 60's when John F. ... He even has an award named after him, to the best all around author (Gourley). ...

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John Steinbeck is a successful American author. ... John Steinbeck gained a love of reading and writing from a very early age. ... John Steinbeck grew up in Salinas, California, which was a fairly prosperous farming community. ... Steinbeck's family, however, was lucky because his father, John Ernst Steinbeck, was relatively successful and owned a feed store. ... Who knows if John Steinbeck will serve as an inspiration to another up and coming young writer?...

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John Grisham, a very famous American author, has spent most of his adult life as a lawyer, author, husband, and father. ... John Grisham led a mostly normal childhood. ... (John Grisham, Best-Selling Author, Biography) Taking his mother's advice, Grisham became a very avid reader while growing up and visited the town library often. "He was especially influenced by the work of John Steinbeck whose clarity he admired." ... (John Grisham, Best-Selling Author, Biography) John Grisham's writing career was inspired by the testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim that he overheard...

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They had two children: Beau Dearborn and Angelique Gabrielle (Contemporary Authors, 25). ... His serious reading began at twelve with a collection of biographies titled The Genius of Solitude. A book of natural history followed, which he tried unsuccessfully to locate years later for his children (Contemporary Authors, 25). ... Hondo sold more than 1.5 million copies and was made into a film starring John Wayne. ... Today, over eighty million copies of his novels are now in print, and according to Bantam Books, after the publication of The Man from the Broken Hills, L"Amour is their best...

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