John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was a controversial and award-winning author who was considered to be one of the most significant authors of all time. He wrote many books throughout his lifetime and is known for his sharp, forceful writing style and wry humor. This paper will discuss Steinbeck's childhood and early career as it influenced his writing. Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, and was the son of John Ernst Steinbeck and Olive Hamilton. He grew up in Salinas, California where most of his stories and novels take place. He used the surrounding Salinas Valley as an example of a serene and fruitful place in his books (DISCovering Authors 3,4). In school Steinbeck was considered to be a wonderful student by his writing teachers and they often read his essays aloud in class. When Steinbeck graduated high school in 1919 he went to Stanford University to get a degree in English since he liked writing so much. When he got there, Steinbeck ignored Stanford's set curriculum and took whatever courses interested him (Verde 102-103). In 1925 Steinbeck gave up the idea of getting a degree and moved to New York City to be an author. At first he went to work on a construction crew for the new Madison Square Garden. He hated that s
Steinbeck liked Sag Harbor because it was so peaceful, and memorialized it in one of his last major works, The Winter of Our Last Discontent (Verde 106-112). Three years later Steinbeck bought a home in Sag Harbor on Long Island in New York and it was there that he spent the rest of his years. When Steinbeck traveled he wrote about all of the things he was experiencing at the time. With World War II coming, Steinbeck did his part for the war effort. During this time he started traveling more and more. In 1968 he suffered a small stroke and then had a major heart attack in July of that year. " After that Steinbeck began working on another novel called Tortilla Flat. Bibliography "John (Ernst) Steinbeck, DISCovering Authors 3. In 1943 Steinbeck wrote a screenplay for the Alfred Hitchcock film, Lifeboat. In 1942 Steinbeck divorced Carol and moved to New York City with a singer named Gwyndolyn Congers whom he had met in Hollywood and was carrying on a secret affair with. Steinbeck's career took a turn for the better when he got in an alliance with a new literary agency called McIntosh and Otis. With their help, Steinbeck sold the first two parts of The Red Pony in 1933. In November he was rushed from Sag Harbor to a New York hospital until December 20 when he went into a coma and later died (Verde 112).
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