General Biographical Informaion:

Name: John Ernst Steinbeck

Born: February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California

   Mother: Olive Hamilton Steinbeck

   Father:  John Ernst Steinbeck

Died: December 20, 1968, in New York City

   Cause of Death: Heart Failure

Lived: Salinas (until age 17)

Wife: Carol Henning (1930-1932)

Wife: Gwyndolyn Conger (1943-1948)

   Son: Thom Steombeck ( Born August 2, 1944)

   Son: John IV Steombeck (Born June 12, 1946)

Wife: Elaine Anderson Scott (1950-Death)

Education:

High School: Salinas High School, Salinas, CA

University: Marine Biology, Stanford University (1919-1925 intermittently)

Awards:

Order of DeMolay Watsonville, CA 1921

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath

Nobel Prize for Literature 1962

Presidential Medal of Freedom 1964

Important Works/Dates of Publication:

Tortilla Flat (1935, novel) Review

Cup of Gold (1936) Review

Of Mice and Men (1937, novel) Inside the Book, Review

The Grapes of Wrath (1939, novel) Review

The Moon Is Down (1942) Review

Cannery Row (1945, novel) Review

The Pearl (1947, novel) Inside the Book, Review

East of Eden (1952, novel) Review

Winters of Our Discontent (1961) Inside the Book, Review