John Steinbeck, author portrait

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929). After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in The Long Valley (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with Tortilla Flat (1935), stories about Monterey’s paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The Grapes of Wrath won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968. Today, more than 30 years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures.
La perla
Travels with Charley in Search of America
Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down
Of Mice and Men
Bombs Away
The Moon Is Down
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Cup of Gold
Once There Was a War
Burning Bright
In Dubious Battle
The Grapes of Wrath
The Book of Spies
America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
Las uvas de la ira
The Grapes of Wrath
The Pearl
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Travels with Charley in Search of America
The Red Pony
The Red Pony
The Pearl
East of Eden
America and Americans

Books

La perla
Travels with Charley in Search of America
Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down
Of Mice and Men
Bombs Away
The Moon Is Down
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Cup of Gold
Once There Was a War
Burning Bright
In Dubious Battle
The Grapes of Wrath
The Book of Spies
America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
Las uvas de la ira
The Grapes of Wrath
The Pearl
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Travels with Charley in Search of America
The Red Pony
The Red Pony
The Pearl
East of Eden
America and Americans

Books for Summer Reading

This summer, let students unwind from a long school year with books that will get them excited about reading and invite them to step outdoors. We’ve compiled a collection of thrilling classic and contemporary stories along with adventurous nonfiction that will allow students to connect with nature and take them on adventures around the world

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