| John Steinbeck  AKA John Ernest Steinbeck
Born: 27-Feb-1902
Birthplace: Salinas, CA
Died: 20-Dec-1968
Location of death: Sag Harbor, NY
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Garden of Memories Cemetery, Salinas, CA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Grapes of Wrath Father: John Ernst Steinbeck (Country Treasurer, d. 1935)
Mother: Olive Hamilton Steinbeck (d. 1934)
Wife: Carol Henning (m. 14-Jan-1930, div. 1932)
Wife: Gwyndolyn Conger (m. 29-Mar-1943, div. Aug-1948)
Son: Thom (b. 2-Aug-1944)
Son: John IV (b. 12-Jun-1946)
Wife: Elaine Anderson Scott (m. 28-Dec-1950, until his death)
High School: Salinas High School, Salinas, CA
University: Marine Biology, Stanford University (1919-1925 intermittently)
Order of DeMolay Watsonville, CA 1921
Nobel Prize for Literature 1962
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Tonsillectomy
German Ancestry
Irish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
O. Henry's Full House (19-Sep-1952) Narrator
Is the subject of books:
John Steinbeck: A Biography, 1995, BY: Jay Parini
Author of books:
Tortilla Flat (1935, novel)
In Dubious Battle (1935)
Cup of Gold (1936)
Of Mice and Men (1937, novel)
The Long Valley (1938, short stories)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939, novel)
The Moon Is Down (1942)
Cannery Row (1945, novel)
The Pearl (1947, novel)
Burning Bright (1950)
East of Eden (1952, novel)
The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)
Winters of Our Discontent (1961)
Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #1773 (15 cents, issued 27-Feb-1979)
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