1. Timeline For John Ernst Steinbeck.
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2. February 27, 1902 John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, on of German and Irish ancestry.
This is Steinbeck’s house.

3. 1919 After graduating from Salinas High School, Steinbeck attended Stanford University.

4. 1925 worked periodically at various jobs and left Stanford permanently in to pursue his writing career in New York
New York City

5. 1929 ,His first novel, Cup of Gold was published, but attracted little attention.
John Steinbeck’s first novel-Cup of Gold .

6. 1930, Steinbeck married his first wife, Carol Henning.
1935, Tortilla Flat marked the turning point in Steinbeck's literary career.
Tortilla Flat

7. 1937, Of Mice and Men let Steinbeck got his Nobel Prize.

8. 1939, The Grapes of Wrath won the Pulitzer Prize.
Movie of Grapes of Wrath
Grapes of Wrath
Pulitzer Prize

9. During World War II, Steinbeck was a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune.
Herald Tribune Newspaper
war correspondent

10. 1962, John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Photos taken when Steinbeck got Nobel Prize for Literature.
December 20, 1968, He died in New York City.

11. Background -- His mother was a teacher, it shared Steinbeck’s passions of writing and reading. He lived in a small rural town. He spent his summers working on nearby ranches and later with migrant workers on Spreckels ranch. He realized how harsh the life of the migrants could be. That’s the reason why he wrote Of Mice and Men. Also the book leaded him to get the Nobel Prize for Literature. In his speech when he got the prize, he said that it was writers’ duty and responsibility to prove human beings real emotion. They need to against weakness and despair and show the love and courage.