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John Steinbeck

1902 - 1968

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John Ernst Steinbeck ( STYNE-bek; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters." During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multigeneration epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Steinbeck is the 188th most popular writer (down from 182nd in 2019), the 167th most popular biography from United States (down from 158th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Writer.

John Steinbeck is most famous for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath.

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Among writers, John Steinbeck ranks 188 out of 7,302. Before him are Al-Masudi, Mikhail Bulgakov, Catullus, Taras Shevchenko, Murasaki Shikibu, and Lope de Vega. After him are Adam Mickiewicz, Sigrid Undset, Halldór Laxness, Petronius, Georges Simenon, and Tove Jansson.

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Among people born in 1902, John Steinbeck ranks 7. Before him are Ruhollah Khomeini, Charles Lindbergh, Karl Popper, Georgy Malenkov, Erik Erikson, and Leni Riefenstahl. After him are Carl Rogers, Halldór Laxness, Paul Dirac, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eugene Wigner, and Kurt Alder. Among people deceased in 1968, John Steinbeck ranks 7. Before him are Martin Luther King Jr., Yuri Gagarin, Helen Keller, Lise Meitner, Padre Pio, and Marcel Duchamp. After him are Otto Hahn, Lev Landau, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Max Brod, Henry Hallett Dale, and Konstantin Rokossovsky.

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Among people born in United States, John Steinbeck ranks 167 out of 20,380. Before him are Tina Turner (1939), John Wayne (1907), George Washington Carver (1864), Katharine Hepburn (1907), Charles Francis Richter (1900), and William James (1842). After him are Richard Gere (1949), Carl Rogers (1902), Richard Feynman (1918), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Tupac Shakur (1971), and Steve McQueen (1930).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Steinbeck ranks 20. Before him are Stephen King (1947), Ezra Pound (1885), Dr. Seuss (1904), Henry David Thoreau (1817), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), and William Faulkner (1897). After him are David Woodard (1964), Pearl S. Buck (1892), Ray Bradbury (1920), J. D. Salinger (1919), Truman Capote (1924), and Joseph Heller (1923).

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