John Steinbeck

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During WWII this author of "The Red Pony" served as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune John Steinbeck $800 DJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 2024-09-27 #9170
Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck FJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 2016-12-14 #7423
He was the first to have both fiction & nonfiction No. 1 New York Times best sellers; the latter featured his beloved poodle John Steinbeck FJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 2015-11-09 #7166
He described the setting of "Cannery Row" as "A poem, a stink...a habit, a nostalgia, a dream" John Steinbeck $600 DJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 1997-12-04 #3054
In a 1947 novelette, he told of a great pearl, how it was found & how it was lost again John Steinbeck $600 DJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 1993-11-22 #2121
He was born in Salinas, California, the setting for his "East of Eden" John Steinbeck $200 DJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 1991-03-13 #1513
In 1940 he worked with a marine biologist upon whom he based the character "Doc" in "Cannery Row" John Steinbeck $400 DJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 1989-12-22 #1225
The only native Californian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature John Steinbeck (in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath ) FJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 1989-10-06 #1170
His works have been categorized as naturalistic tragedies, whimsical Monterey idylls, & pastorals Steinbeck $600 DJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 1988-06-24 #895
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