Steinbeck,John Ernst

Steinbeck,John Ernst
Stein·beck (stīnʹbĕk'), John Ernst. 1902-1968.
American writer of short stories and novels, most notably The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which concerns the social and economic plight of migrant farm workers in California. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize for literature.

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  • John Steinbeck — Infobox Writer name = John Steinbeck III awards = awd|Nobel Prize in Literature|1962 caption = Steinbeck (center), with his son, visits President Lyndon B. Johnson birthdate = birth date|1902|2|27|mf=y birthplace = Salinas Valley, California,… …   Wikipedia

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