He formed an early appreciation for the land and in particular California's Salinas Valley, which would greatly inform his later writing. His mother, Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, was a former schoolteacher.įor the most part, Steinbeck - who grew up with three sisters - had a happy childhood. His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, tried his hand at several different jobs to keep his family fed: He owned a feed-and-grain store, managed a flour plant and served as treasurer of Monterey County. was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. Steinbeck served as a war correspondent during World War II, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. His 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about the migration of a family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California, won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. His works often dealt with social and economic issues. Steinbeck dropped out of college and worked as a manual laborer before achieving success as a writer.
John Steinbeck was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and the author of Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden.
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