John Steinbeck
出生: February 27, 1902 – Salinas, California, United States
John Steinbeck was an American novelist and journalist whose work examined labor, poverty, migration, and moral conflict in Depression-era America. Best known for The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden, he won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1940 Pulitzer Prize.
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John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California, a setting that would become central to his imagination and moral vision. Raised in an agricultural region marked by wide social contrasts, he developed an early sensitivity to land, labor, and class. He attended Stanford University intermittently but did not complete a degree, leaving instead for a series of practical jobs that included ranch work, factory labor, and journalism. Those experiences gave his fiction an unusual physical immediacy and helped shape his lifelong attention to people living under economic pressure. His earliest books drew limited notice, but his determination to write seriously about ordinary lives remained constant.
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"John Steinbeck was awarded the prize for "realistic as well as imaginative writings, distinguished by a sympathetic humour and a keen social perception."
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"John Steinbeck is remembered as a giant of 20th-century American literature, a brutal critic of the exploitation of rural laborers"
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"John Steinbeck is quicksilver itself to nail down"
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"John Steinbeck was an American novelist, best known for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression decade"
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"John Steinbeck is known by most as a great American novelist whose writing championed the white working class"
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"John Steinbeck: A flawed genius"
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"John Steinbeck achieved worldwide recognition for his keen observations of the human condition during the Great Depression"
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"New life of John Steinbeck reveals a writer "fueled by anger"
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