1902-1968

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Steinbeck Family Home

Family had a seaside cottage in Monterey

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The Red Pony

After High School Job dredging a canal to earn money for college Worked with illiterate migrant workers and was

upset by the way they were portrayed in the newspapers

English major at Stanford New York City – construction & free-lance

writing Back to California – random jobs

Fruit picker, house painter, lab assistant All working class jobs – gained sympathy for

working class people

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His stories are often about ordinary people in the Great Depression.

http://www.shorpy.com/rural-mother-1936

First published in 1929 – not a success The Red Pony - 1933 First acclaimed book, Tortilla Flat, published in 1935 Of Mice and Men - 1937 The Grapes of Wrath – 1939 – Pulitzer Prize East of Eden – 1952 Winter of Our Discontent - 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature - 1962 Travels with Charley: In Search of America - 1962 Common themes – rural economy, labor workers 17 of his works have been made into movies

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He wrote a story about a pony in high school, but did not complete his work until his mother became very sick

Movie released in 1949, made for TV version in 1973

He said the writing of this story began when he was four years old and his pony got a cold

His uncle’s ranch, where he kept his pony and spent time, became the model for the Tiflin’s Ranch

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