John Steinbeck - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1962
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John Steinbeck

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1962
for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
2/27/1902
place of birth
Salinas
date of death
12/20/1968
place of death
New York City, Harlem
Lived
66 years

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educated at
  • Salinas High School
  • Stanford University
occupation
  • war correspondent
  • novelist
  • writer
  • screenwriter
  • scientific collector
  • prose writer
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • PEN America
notable work
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • East of Eden
  • Of Mice and Men
field of work
  • novel of manners
  • prose
  • creative and professional writing
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