# John Steinbeck

> He gave the Dust Bowl its enduring text and turned California farmland into American myth. The Grapes of Wrath sold 14 million copies and won him a Pulitzer; the Nobel committee later praised his "sympathetic humor and keen social perception." Steinbeck's everyman protagonists — drifters, cannery workers, families fleeing ruin — made him a giant of American 

*American writer (1902–1968)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1902-02-27
- **Died:** 1968-12-20
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

John Ernst Steinbeck was born February 27, 1902, and spent his writing life anchored in central California, particularly the Salinas Valley and Coast Ranges. Over 33 books — 16 novels, 6 nonfiction works, 2 short story collections, one coauthored with Edward Ricketts — he explored fate and injustice through downtrodden protagonists. Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945) brought comic warmth; The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937) compressed tragedy into novella form. The Grapes of Wrath (1939), his Pulitzer-winning masterpiece, became part of the American literary canon. East of Eden followed in 1952, a multigenerational epic. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 and died December 20, 1968.

## Fame
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- **Category rank:** #79

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## Topics
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