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On the 27th of February 1902, Steinbeck was born in Salinas, CA to John Ernst II and Olive Hamilton.
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Steinbeck attended classes at Stanford University but never received a degree. During these years, Steinbeck dropped out for several months and was employed intermittently as a sales clerk, farm laborer, ranch hand, bench chemist, and factory worker.
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During his time at Stanford University, Steinbeck published "Fingers of Cloud" and "Adventures in Arcademy" in The Stanford Spectator.
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Steinbeck publishes his first novel, Cup of Gold, with Mcbride.
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During this year, Steinbeck meets Edward F. Ricketts, marine biologist, philosopher, and longtime friend.
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After marrying Carol, she and Steinbeck move to a house in Pacific Grove.
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During the 1930s, while working on To a God Unknown and The Pastures of Heaven, Steinbeck experimented with a collection of linked stories, titled Dissonant Symphony. The work was supposed to focus on several northern California families and how their lives were influenced by environment and other circumstances. Though Steinbeck wrote much of it, the work was eventually abandoned.
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In 1936, Tom Collins took over the weedpatch camp and met Steinbeck.
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Marriage to Carol Henning, Steinbeck's first wife.
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Olive Hamilton Steinbeck dies in Salinas, CA at age 66.
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The first novel that had popular success, Tortilla Flat was published by Covici-Friede. His editor for this novel, Pascal Covici, would become a lifelong friend.
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John Ernst Steinbeck (father) dies in May at 72.
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First trip to Europe and Russia
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Steinbeck went west from Oklahoma with migrants.
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First published in Harper's Magazine.
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Opening of the play, Of Mice and Men in New York. Steinbeck had gone to New York and Pennsylvania to work on the stage version, which was produced by Music Box Theatre.
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A nonfiction account of the migrant labor problem
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New York Drama Critics Circle Award given to Steinbeck for the play Of Mice and Men
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A short story collection, including the Red Pony, Flight, The Gift, The Chrysanthemums, The White Quail. For this work, Pascal Covici became an editor at Viking Press after the bankruptcy of his own firm.
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Published by Viking, The Grapes of Wrath, provoking both great popular acclaim and violent political condemnation for its depiction of Oklahoma migrants and California growers, as well as "vulgar" language and socialist bias.
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The film, Of Mice and Men, is released.
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Film of The Grapes of Wrath released.
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In the Spring of 1940, Steinbeck receives the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath
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Summer of 1940s, a documentary film about the living conditions in rural Mexico is released
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Ricketts and Steinbeck travel through the Gulf of California on "Western Flyer" from Mar 11, 1940 to Apr 20, 1940
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Steinbeck traveled to Mexico for the filming of The Forgotten Village.
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In the Spring of 1941, Carol and Steinbeck seperate.
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In the Fall of 1941, Steinbeck moves in with Gwyndolyn Conger.
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Book written with Ed Ricketts, published by Viking
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Bombs Away written for Army Air Corps
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The movie version of The Moon is Down is released.
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Divorce from Carol is finalized.
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From June to October of 1943, Steinbeck traveled in Europe and North Africa as a war correspondent for New York Herald Tribune.
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After marrying Gwyn in March, she and Steinbeck move to New York.
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Gwyn Conger and John Steinbeck marry in New Orleans.
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Steinbeck and Gwyn's first child is born, Thomas "Thom" Steinbeck.
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Gwyn and John sailed on a ship to Sweden in October of 1946, where he was inundated with reporters and cameramen. While he was there, he was awarded King Haakon’s Liberty Cross for his writing of The Moon is Down.
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Steinbeck and Gwyn's second son is born, John Steinbeck IV.
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From August to September of 1947, Steinbeck took a tour of Russia with photographer Robert Capa for the New York Herald Tribune.
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An account of Steinbeck's 1947 tour of Russia is published by Viking.
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Ed Ricketts, longtime friend of Steinbeck, is killed in an automobile accident.
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Steinbeck and Gwyn divorce.
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Opening of the play Burning Bright in New York City.
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Steinbeck marries his third wife, Elaine Anderson Scott.
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This publication also includes an original essay "About Ed Ricketts"
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John, Elaine, and John’s two sons all spent the summer of 1951 in Nantucket. It was here that he made major strides toward the completion of his “big” novel East of Eden. By the time of the family’s departure from Nantucket, he was extremely close to completing the novel.
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Screenplay for this movie was published in Rome by Edizoni Filmcritica in 1953.
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Steinbeck travels Italy, Greece, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Finland.
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Sequel to Cannery Row
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Steinbeck purchases a summer home in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York.
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A Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein III musical based on Sweet Thursday, opens in New York.
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Eisenhower vs Adlai Stevenson
Eisenhower won, but Steinbeck supported Stevenson. (Description of photo: John and Elaine Steinbeck, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), Mr and Ms James Roosevelt on route to the Adlai Stevenson Funeral on Air Force 1) -
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In 1957, Steinbeck went to Japan for the P.E.N. meeting. Though apprehensive, he made the opening speech for the opening session of the congress.
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A collection of Steinbeck's 1943 wartime dispatches.
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From February to October in 1959, John and Elaine traveled to England and Wales to research background for a modern English version of Malory's Morte D'arthur.
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From September to November of 1960, Steinbeck tours the United States with his poodle, Charley.
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The journal of his 1960 trip with Charley is published.
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Steinbeck is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Steinbeck and dramatist Edward Albee travel on the United States Information Agency cultural tour from October to December of 1963. Steinbeck and dramatist Edward Albee travel on the United States Information Agency cultural tour.
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Steinbeck is presented the Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Steinbeck goes for an extensive visit to South Vietnam for fact-finding and to visit John IV from December of 1966 to January of 1967.
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"A Piece of it Fell on my Tail" was the title of a work Steinbeck began writing shortly after abandoning The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights. This was the last literary project he planned.
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A reflection on contemporary America
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Steinbeck dies of arteriosclerosis in New York City.
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The Vietnam Memoir by John Steinbeck IV.
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Published in Japan, Kiyoshi Nakayama includes multiple stories published in a variety of places. Stories include: "The Time the Wolves Ate the Vice Principal", "His Father", and "Reunion at the Quiet Hotel".
