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- NAME: John Steinbeck
- OCCUPATION: Author
- BIRTH DATE: February 27, 1902
- DEATH DATE: December 20, 1968
- EDUCATION: Stanford University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Salinas, California
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
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John Steinbeck was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose book The Grapes of Wrath portrayed the plight of migrant workers during the Depression.
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Later Life
Following that great success, Steinbeck served as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II. He also traveled to Mexico to collect marine life with his friend Edward F. Ricketts, a marine biologist. Their collaboration resulted in the book Sea of Cortez (1941), which describes the marine life in the Gulf of California. In the last 25 years of his life Steinbeck wrote books including Cannery Row (1945), Burning Bright (1950), East of Eden (1952),
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The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), and Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962). In 1962 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died of heart disease on December 20, 1968, in his New York City home.
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