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John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck, American Writer
by Dr. Susan Shillinglaw
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John Steinbeck was born in the farming town of Salinas, California on 27 February 1902. His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, was not a terribly successful man; at one time or another he was the manager of a Sperry flour plant, the owner of a feed and grain store, the treasurer of Monterey County. His mother, the strong-willed Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, was a former teacher. As a child growing up in the fertile Salinas Valley —called the "Salad Bowl of the Nation" — Steinbeck formed a deep appreciation of his environment, not only the rich fields and hills surrounding Salinas, but also the nearby Pacific coast where his family spent summer weekends. "I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers," he wrote in the opening chapter of East of Eden. "I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer-and what trees and seasons smelled lik
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John Steinbeck : a biography 9780749396527, 0749396520
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John Steinbeck
Jay Parini, an American poet and novelist, is currently the Fowler Hamilton Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. He is the author of numerous books, including Anthracite Country,
Town Life, The Last Station and Bay of Arrows. Reviewing The Last Station in the TLS, John Bayley called this novel of Leo Tolstoy’s last year a ‘subtle masterpiece’. Parini’s earlier biographical study of poet Theodore Roethke was shortlisted for a Pulitzer prize in 1979.
Also by Jay Parini Singing in Time (poetry) Theodore Roethke: An America