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=**John Steinbeck**=



Nobel Prize in Literature (1962)
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===="I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."====

===="It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love they produce of the second."====



[|He wrote many great novels and won the Nobel Peace Prize..]

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[|He has his own website!]
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on February 27, 1902. Salinas is in Monterey County which was the setting for many of the stories Steinbeck wrote. When Steinbeck was 14, he decided that he would pursue a career in writing. Many times he would be in his closet writing stories and poems. To please his parents, Steinbeck enrolled in Stanford University in 1919. In 1925, Steinbeck officially dropped out of Stanford to pursue his writing career. He wrote his first novel in 1929. The first novel he wrote was called __Cup of Gold.__ He also married his first wife Carol Henning in that year. Carol was a supporter of his writing and helped to give him money to do it. He was only receiving moderate reviews from his novels before __Tortilla Flat,__ in which got much better reviews and where he recieved some of his success from. This is one of the stories set in Monterey, where he grew up. After notable successes in __In Dubious Battle__ during 1936, he wrote __Of Mice and Men__ in 1937. This novel was about his past eperiences in the 1920s. After __Of Mice and Men,__ he hit the peak of his writing career when he published __Grapes of Wrath__ in 1939. Usually considered Steinbeck’s greatest work, this story was about a family living in California during the height of the Great Depression. The book was so popular that at its height, it hit 10,000 copies sold per week. It also captured the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1940. After these great works, he never got to the status achieved by his previous novels. Steinbeck was also a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune during World War Two. After the war, he tried to get back to the top of the charts for writing but none of his later works were close to the success of __Grapes of Wrath__. Steinbeck won the Nobel Peace Prize of Literature in 1962. He died of heart disease in his New York City home in 1968.
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