Steinbeck is a celebrated author around the world. John Ernst Steinbeck III was a American Novelist that won the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize during his prime and achieved this while passing through some roadblocks in his life.
Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on the 27th of February in 1902. Born with his 3 sisters, his only siblings, his father worked as a treasurer of Monterey County and his mother worked as a schoolteacher. After high school graduation, Steinbeck enrolled at Stanford University. He was a hard worker to also work different jobs to keep his family fed while at school. His college life wouldn’t last so long as he dropped out after six years to move to New York City. As he started his writing there, this would only be the beginning of his life as a novelist. …show more content…
Before all of this, writers influenced him including: William Faulkner, Robert Burns, Sherwood Anderson, and Thomas Malory. His short story writing was mainly influenced by his professor at Stanford, Edith Mirrielees. Steinbeck learned the fundamentals of writing that stuck with him for the rest of his literary career. Ed Ricketts, a businessman and friend, conferred about philosophy with little Steinbeck and prevailed to be an important influence throughout his life. They both were discussing philosophers like Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Kant. His appreciation towards Ed’s form of scientific investigation, Street notes, was unreal (Paper Masters). In Steinbeck’s first novel, Cup of Gold, it would focus on a seventeenth-century pirate adventures in Panama. His first novel that got the most attention was Of Mice and Men as he would receive his first award- Drama Critics Circle Award- as the novel had a stage version in New York (Shmoop Editorial Team). His success later on would make him earn more
Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on the 27th of February in 1902. Born with his 3 sisters, his only siblings, his father worked as a treasurer of Monterey County and his mother worked as a schoolteacher. After high school graduation, Steinbeck enrolled at Stanford University. He was a hard worker to also work different jobs to keep his family fed while at school. His college life wouldn’t last so long as he dropped out after six years to move to New York City. As he started his writing there, this would only be the beginning of his life as a novelist. …show more content…
Before all of this, writers influenced him including: William Faulkner, Robert Burns, Sherwood Anderson, and Thomas Malory. His short story writing was mainly influenced by his professor at Stanford, Edith Mirrielees. Steinbeck learned the fundamentals of writing that stuck with him for the rest of his literary career. Ed Ricketts, a businessman and friend, conferred about philosophy with little Steinbeck and prevailed to be an important influence throughout his life. They both were discussing philosophers like Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Kant. His appreciation towards Ed’s form of scientific investigation, Street notes, was unreal (Paper Masters). In Steinbeck’s first novel, Cup of Gold, it would focus on a seventeenth-century pirate adventures in Panama. His first novel that got the most attention was Of Mice and Men as he would receive his first award- Drama Critics Circle Award- as the novel had a stage version in New York (Shmoop Editorial Team). His success later on would make him earn more