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John Steinbeck's Early Life

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John Steinbeck, an American author, began writing as an adolescent. He moved onto early career fails, then to early career successes. His most laudable works came with decoration. He had many books in his later years, including the books he created from inspirations, such as marine life and the homeless. John Steinbeck was an American champion of the great classic literature he created and still has his legacy left within the world today. John Steinbeck began writing very young, at age fourteen he wrote short stories and poems. At age seventeen, he enrolled in Stanford University, mainly to please his parents, not for his benefit. He stayed there and studied for six years, dropping out in 1925 with no degree (“John Steinbeck – Biographical”). …show more content…

This novel sold 10,000 copies per week, and eventually leading him to earning the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. He continued to write in his later years. During World War II, he was a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribute. Some of his later published novels were Burning Bright, 1950, East of Eden, 1952, and The Winter of Our Discontent, 1961. He later earned the Noble Prize for Literature in 1962 for “his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humored keen social perception” (John Steinbeck — Biographical). There were many people who disagreed with him earning this, but with what he had written, it was simply logical for him to earn his Nobel Prize. He had multiple inspirations for his novels in his years. He had travelled to Mexico to gather marine life with his marine biologist friend, Edward F. Ricketts. From this inspiration he wrote Sea of Cortez in 1941. He would also listen to the stories of homeless people and their lives, and from this he created Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday. He had also travelled with a friend, Horace Bristol, to California one time in his career and done research for The Grapes of Wrath. He wrote stories based on the actual stories from lives we don’t usually

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