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| | Steinbeck's writing was inspired by the scenic beauty of his working-class home town of Salinas, located in the Salinas Valley and dubbed the "Salad Bowl of the Nation." Steinbeck's novels contained characters inspired by real persons, such as Cathy (the evil woman in ''East of Eden''), who was supposedly based on his reportedly unfaithful second wife Gwyndolyn Conger, and four characters in Steinbeck's books were based entirely on his friend Ed Ricketts, whose death from being hit by a train in nearly Monterey in 1948 was devastating both to Steinbeck and his subsequent written work.<ref>https://prabook.com/web/john.steinbeck/721128</ref> | | Steinbeck's writing was inspired by the scenic beauty of his working-class home town of Salinas, located in the Salinas Valley and dubbed the "Salad Bowl of the Nation." Steinbeck's novels contained characters inspired by real persons, such as Cathy (the evil woman in ''East of Eden''), who was supposedly based on his reportedly unfaithful second wife Gwyndolyn Conger, and four characters in Steinbeck's books were based entirely on his friend Ed Ricketts, whose death from being hit by a train in nearly Monterey in 1948 was devastating both to Steinbeck and his subsequent written work.<ref>https://prabook.com/web/john.steinbeck/721128</ref> |
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| − | Steinbeck attended [[Stanford University]] without graduating. He wrote the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning novel about a migrant family entitled ''The Grapes of Wrath'' (1939), which was the best-selling book of that year with sales of 430,000 by February 1940. He also wrote fifteen other novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. In 1962 Steinbeck received the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature. On the personal side, he forced his first wife to have an [[abortion]] against her desire to keep the baby; the abortion was botched to her severe harm.<ref>https://thebridgehead.ca/2020/01/10/how-the-curse-of-abortion-has-haunted-americas-literary-greats/</ref> They divorced in 1943, and soon afterwards Steinbeck married Gwedolyn “Gwyn” Conger, a 20-year-old jazz singer 17 years younger than Steinbeck, and they had two children. In 1948 they divorced, and in 1950 Steinbeck married his third wife, Elaine Scott.<ref>https://sits.sjsu.edu/context/influencers/</ref> | + | Steinbeck attended [[Stanford University]] without graduating. He wrote the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning novel about a migrant family entitled ''The Grapes of Wrath'' (1939), which was the best-selling book of that year with sales of 430,000 by February 1940. In 1962 Steinbeck received the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature. On the personal side, he forced his first wife to have an [[abortion]] against her desire to keep the baby; the abortion was botched to her severe harm.<ref>https://thebridgehead.ca/2020/01/10/how-the-curse-of-abortion-has-haunted-americas-literary-greats/</ref> They divorced in 1943, and soon afterwards Steinbeck married Gwedolyn “Gwyn” Conger, a 20-year-old jazz singer 17 years younger than Steinbeck, and they had two children. In 1948 they divorced, and in 1950 Steinbeck married his third wife, Elaine Scott.<ref>https://sits.sjsu.edu/context/influencers/</ref> |
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| | Steinbeck grew up in and spent most of his writing career in [[California]]. Some of his works have been made into movies, including ''Cannery Row'' (1945), ''The Pearl'' (1947), ''Of Mice and Men'' (1939) (about two migrant workers who were friends) and ''East of Eden'' (1952) (which was turned into a successful movie). Steinbeck was also successful as a Hollywood writer, receiving an [[Academy Award]] nomination for Best Story in 1944 for [[Alfred Hitchcock|Alfred Hitchcock's]] ''Lifeboat'', although Steinbeck disliked the movie's distortion of his work and asked that his name be taken off its promotion.<ref>https://www.flavorwire.com/256717/john-steinbeck-wanted-his-name-taken-off-hitchcocks-lifeboat</ref> | | Steinbeck grew up in and spent most of his writing career in [[California]]. Some of his works have been made into movies, including ''Cannery Row'' (1945), ''The Pearl'' (1947), ''Of Mice and Men'' (1939) (about two migrant workers who were friends) and ''East of Eden'' (1952) (which was turned into a successful movie). Steinbeck was also successful as a Hollywood writer, receiving an [[Academy Award]] nomination for Best Story in 1944 for [[Alfred Hitchcock|Alfred Hitchcock's]] ''Lifeboat'', although Steinbeck disliked the movie's distortion of his work and asked that his name be taken off its promotion.<ref>https://www.flavorwire.com/256717/john-steinbeck-wanted-his-name-taken-off-hitchcocks-lifeboat</ref> |
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| | * ''[[The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights]]'' (1976) | | * ''[[The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights]]'' (1976) |
| | * ''[[Workings Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath]]'' (1989) | | * ''[[Workings Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath]]'' (1989) |
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| | + | == See also == |
| | + | *[[Manliness]] |
| | ==References== | | ==References== |
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| | * http://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html - John Steinbeck Center | | * http://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html - John Steinbeck Center |
| | * http://www.steinbeck.org/Bio.html - Biography | | * http://www.steinbeck.org/Bio.html - Biography |