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| Salinas, California; February 27, 1902 |
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| The California countryside and working on farms with immigrants |
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| When did he decide he was going to write? |
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| What was his job in HS at the HS? |
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| What college did he go to? For how long? Why? |
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| Stanford University; 1919-1925; to please his parents |
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| What did he study at college? |
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| English and Classical Literature |
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| Where did he write in 1920s and 30s and what was the public response? |
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| California; gained success |
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| What was his first novel and when did he publish it? |
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| Who did he marry in 1930? And When did they divorce? |
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| When did he get "The Best Novel by a Californian" and what book? |
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| What book did he write in 1936? Where did he tour afterwards? |
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| What book did he write in 1939? What prize did he gain for that book and when? |
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| The Grapes of Wrath; Pulitzer Prize, 1940 |
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| What points were stressed in The Grapes of Wrath? |
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| Who did he marry in 1943? How many Kids? When did they divorce? |
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| Gwendolyn Conger, 2, 1948 |
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| war correspondent for Herald Tribune |
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| Where did he move when his friends began to dislike him? When did he go back? |
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| Who did he marry in 1950? |
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| One son fought in NAM. Who was Steinbeck writing for about the war? (Vietnam War) |
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| What type was his last two books? |
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| What was Travels with Charley in Search of America about? |
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| His trip with his poodle from NY to Calif |
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| American and the Americans was about what? |
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| NY; December 20, 1968 (wife took body to Salinas to be buried) |
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