National steinbeck center. john steinbeck biography
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National Steinbeck Center
Biographical museum in Salinas, California
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| Location | One Main Street Salinas, California |
| Coordinates | 36°40′38″N°39′20″W / °N °W / ; |
| Type | Biographical museum |
| Collections | Manuscripts, correspondences, family library, utländsk editions, works, historical interviews and oral histories, critical analysis, ephemera, artifacts |
| Director | Dr. Susan Shillinglaw |
| Nearest parking | Monterey Street parking garage |
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The National Steinbeck Center is a museum and memorial dedicated to the author John Steinbeck, located at the California State University, monterey Bay at Salinas City Center building at One Main Street in Salinas, California, the town where Steinbeck grew up.
The Steinbeck Center Foundation was founded in ; the center itself was finished and opened to the public on June 27, The center houses the largest collection of Steinbeck archives in the United States, with variou
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Famed novelist John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was born on February 27, , in Salinas, California. His books, including his landmark work The Grapes of Wrath (), often dealt with social and economic issues. Steinbeck was raised with modest means. His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, tried his hand at several different jobs to support his family. He owned a feed-and-grain store, managed a flour plant and served as treasurer of Monterey County. His mother, Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, was a former schoolteacher.
For the most part, Steinbeck—who grew up with three sisters—had a happy childhood. He was shy, but smart, and formed an early appreciation for the land, and in particular California&#;s Salinas Valley, which would greatly influence his later writing. According to accounts, Steinbeck decided to become a writer at the age of 14, often locking himself in his bedroom to write poems and stories. In , Steinbeck enrolled at Stanford University—a decision that had more to do with
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John Steinbeck
American writer (–)
"Steinbeck" redirects here. For other people with this surname, see Steinbeck (surname).
John Ernst Steinbeck (STYNE-bek; February 27, &#;– December 20, ) was an American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception".[2] He has been called "a giant of American letters."[3][4]
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat () and Cannery Row (), the multigeneration epic East of Eden (), and the novellas The Red Pony () and Of Mice and Men (). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath ()[5] is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon.[6] By the 7