February 27.1902-American novelist John Steinbeck's birthday
February 27, 1902 (Renyin in the first month on the 20th), American novelist John Steinbeck's Birthday. birth of
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Steinbeck, born on February 27, 1902 a miller family in California, Monterey County town of Kayseri NASDAQ him from the early years contact with European classical literary works from 1920 to 1925, he had elective English literature and marine biology courses at Stanford University, and engaged in a variety of manual labor for a living.
he began writing in college studying the 1929 publication of the first novel "Gold Cup". subsequently published two novels, "Paradise Ranch" (1932) and dedicated to a nameless God "(1933), none of the attention," Tuo Diya plains published in 1935 welcomed by literary critics and readers. "pending the outcome of the battle in 1936, published in 1937," rat "adapted by the author for the drama staged in New York drama critics award 1938 published "Long Valley" collection of short stories.
"Grapes of Wrath" (1939) is the author's masterpiece, the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s, an epic won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940.
; before and after World War II, "moonset" (1942), "Cannery Row" (1944), "The Wayward Bus" (1947), "Pearl" (1947). late
Steinbeck The main works are two novels "East of Eden" (1952) and "winter of our discontent" (1961).
Steinbeck won the Nobel literature prize in 1962 and the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 , died of heart attack on December 20, 1968 in New York.
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