History Creator / JohnSteinbeck

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: While his books often featured good people....they were set during the great depression.

* SlidingScaleOfRealisticVersusFantastic: His books were about real people living through a really dark time in human history.

* SlidingScaleOfRealismVersusFantastic: His books were about real people living through a really dark time in human history.

* SlidingScaleOfRealismVsImagination: His books were about real people living during a dark real time in human history.

John Steinbeck was a [[UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize Pulitzer]] and Nobel Prize-winning American author. He wrote twenty-seven books within his lifetime, and became influential in his writing style and views.

He was born in 1902 by the Salinas river in UsefulNotes/{{California}} out in the country, which affected many of the settings of his works. A simple man, he labored alongside the migrant workers that inspired him. After leaving Stanford University without a degree, he set off his career with ''Tortilla Flat'', a novel set in post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarI Monterey. His Dust Bowl novels set in California garnered critical success and became some of his most popular works, such as ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''. ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940, and became a controversial but influential work that ended up on the list of banned novels. It caused controversy with his liberal political views. The negative angle on capitalism and the representation of the Okies made trouble for him, but the book remained a success and is considered by many to be his best work.

Steinbeck is known for showing the poor as decent people and the underdogs, and putting his views into his work. He was awarded the UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature in 1962 before he died in 1968. John Steinbeck's works have become popular SchoolStudyMedia and are still read today, [[TearJerker traumatizing]] generations of American children for ever after.

Steinbeck is known for showing the poor as decent people and the underdogs, and putting his views into his work. He was awarded the NobelPrizeInLiterature in 1962 before he died in 1968. John Steinbeck's works have become popular SchoolStudyMedia and are still read today, [[TearJerker traumatizing]] generations of American children for ever after.

John Steinbeck was a [[PulitzerPrize Pulitzer]] and Nobel Prize-winning American author. He wrote twenty-seven books within his lifetime, and became influential in his writing style and views.

He was born in 1902 by the Salinas river in California out in the country, which affected many of the settings of his works. A simple man, he labored alongside the migrant workers that inspired him. After leaving Stanford University without a degree, he set off his career with ''Tortilla Flat'', a novel set in post-{{World War I}} Monterey. His Dust Bowl novels set in California garnered critical success and became some of his most popular works, such as ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''. ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940, and became a controversial but influential work that ended up on the list of banned novels. It caused controversy with his liberal political views. The negative angle on capitalism and the representation of the Okies made trouble for him, but the book remained a success and is considered by many to be his best work.

Steinbeck is known for showing the poor as decent people and the underdogs, and putting his views into his work. He was awarded the NobelPrizeForLiterature in 1962 before he died in 1968. John Steinbeck's works have become popular SchoolStudyMedia and are still read today, [[TearJerker traumatizing]] generations of American children for ever after.

* ''[[KingArthur The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights]]''

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Most of his books are based on his own experiences..

Steinbeck is known for showing the poor as decent people and the underdogs, and putting his views into his work. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 before he died in 1968. John Steinbeck's works have become popular SchoolStudyMedia and are still read today, [[TearJerker traumatizing]] generations of American children for ever after.

* SceneryPorn: Steinbeck is to California what LMMontgomery is to Prince Edward Island.

* DeathByNewberyMedal

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Most of Steibeck's Books are Based His Own Experiences.

John Steinbeck was a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author. He wrote twenty-seven books within his lifetime, and became influential in his writing style and views.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Most of Steibeck's Books are Based His Own Expeirences.
** WriteWhoYouKnow: Some of his Characters are Also Based on People He Knew.

* ''EastOfEden''

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Some of Stienbeck's Books are Based His Own Expeirences.

* ''CanneryRow''

* ''TheRedPony''

* WriteWhatYouKnow: He Bases His Novels on His Own Expeirences.
** WriteWhoYouKnow: Some are Characters are Based on People He Knew.

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He was born in 1902 by the Salinas river in California out in the country, which effected many of the settings of his works. A simple man, he labored alongside the migrant workers that inspired him. After leaving Stanford University without a degree, he set off his career with ''Tortilla Flat'', a novel set in post-{{World War I}} Monterey. His Dust Bowl novels set in California garnered critical success and became some of his most popular works, such as ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''. ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940, and became a controversial but influential work that ended up on the list of banned novels. It caused controversy with his liberal political views. The negative angle on capitalism and the representation of the Okies made trouble for him, but the book remained a success and is considered by many to be his best work.

* ItGotWorse

* ''Literatuer/OfMiceAndMen''