Publication details of The Grapes of Wrath:

Published in 1939

Other literary works include:

Cup of Gold (1929)
To a God Unknown (1933)
Tortilla Flat (1935)
Of Mice and Men (1937)

Born:

27th of February, 1902, in Salinas, California, USA

Early years:

He was the third of four children and the only son of John Ernst and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck.

Schooling:

He attended the local high school and studied marine biology at Stanford University between 1920 and 1926, but did not take a degree.

Career:

After working for a short time as a laborer and reporter in New York City for the American, Steinbeck returned to California. While writing, Steinbeck worked as a manual laborer. He was apprenticehood-carrier, apprentice painter, caretaker of an estate, surveyor and fruit-picker. In 1940, Steinbeck went to Mexico to film the documentary Forgotten Village. During World War II he served as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune in Great Britain and the Mediterranean area. In 1937 he had visited Europe. In 1943 he moved to New York City, his home for the rest of his life.

Final years:

In 1959 Steinbeck spent nearly a year at Discove Cottage in England working with Morte d'Arthur. After returning to the United States he travelled around his country with his poodle, Charley, and published in 1962 Travels with Charley in Search of America. He received the Nobel Prize in the same year.

Died:

He died on 20th of December, 1968 in New York City of arteriosclerosis.