English literature John Ernst Steinbeck John

  

English literature

  

John Ernst Steinbeck

  

John Ernst Steinbeck,was born in Salinas (California) on 27^th   February 1902 and died in New York on 20^th December 1968, was an   American committed writer. He woefully performed his studies. After numerous   failures, Cup of Gold in   1929 and The Red Pony in   1933, he started to make a reputation by writing Of Mice and Men in 1937. In 1939, he wrote his   masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath,   who won the Pulitzer prize. Afterwards, he took up residence in New York and   became a famous polemist. Besides, he peremptorily objected to McCarthyism in   the United States and he expressed disapproval of Communism abroad. During   the Vietnam War, he supported Lyndon Baines Johnson. In fact, John Steinbeck   was war reporter for New York Herald   Tribune during the Second World War and in Vietnam, on 1966. In 1962,   his work won the Nobel prize insofar as John Steinbeck repeatedly took a   stand. For example, in the social protest novel The Grapes of Wrath, he denounced the tragedies of the   Great Depression.

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