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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.