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John Steinbeck
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Born:
Salinas, California
on
2/27/1902
Died:
12/20/1968
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Filmography
East of Eden (Remake)
- ( Source Material
/
/ Announced /
)
The Winter of Our Discontent
- ( Novel as Source Material
/
/ Announced /
)
The Pearl
- ( Novel as Source Material
/ 2005
/ Lensing/Awaiting Release /
)
Of Mice and Men
- ( Novel as Source Material
/ 1992
/ Released /
)
Cannery Row
- ( From Story
/ 1982
/ Released /
)
Cannery Row
- ( Novel as Source Material
/ 1982
/ Released /
)
The Wayward Bus
- ( Novel as Source Material
/ 1957
/ Released /
)
East of Eden
- ( Novel as Source Material
/ 1955
/ Released /
)
Viva Zapata!
- ( Screenplay
/ 1952
/ Released /
)
Lifeboat
- ( From Story
/ 1944
/ Released /
Fox Films, Ltd.
)
The Grapes of Wrath
- ( Novel as Source Material
/ 1940
/ Released /
)
Of Mice and Men
- ( Novel as Source Material
/ 1939
/ Released /
United Artists Pictures Inc.
)
Of Mice and Men
- ( Play as Source Material
/ 1939
/ Released /
United Artists Pictures Inc.
)
TV Credits
The Grapes of Wrath
(
1991 / Released
):
Novel as Source Material
John Steinbeck's "The Winter of Our Discontent"
(
1983 / Released
):
Novel as Source Material
John Steinbeck's "East of Eden"
(
1981 / Released
):
Novel as Source Material
Of Mice and Men
(
1981 / Released
):
Novel as Source Material
The Red Pony
(
1973 / Released
):
Novel as Source Material
The Harness
(
1971 / Released
):
From Story
Full Biography
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Profession(s):
novelist, screenwriter, journalist, construction worker, migrant worker
Sometimes Credited As:
Family
father:John Ernst Steinbeck (served as Monterrey County treasurer; died in 1935)
mother:Olive Hamilton (died in February 1934)
son:Thom Steinbeck (born on August 2, 1944; survived him; mother, Gwyn)
son:John Steinbeck Jr (born c. 1946; survived him)
wife:Carol Henning (met in 1928; eloped to Los Angeles in 1929; divorced)
wife:Elaine Steinbeck (third wife; married in 1950; had formerly been married to actor Zachary Scott; born in Texas)
wife:Gwyn Conder (born c. 1920; married in March 1943; mother of Steinbeck's two sons)
Education
Stanford University Stanford, California
Awards
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Nobel Prize for Literature 1962
Pulitzer Prize in Fiction "The Grapes of Wrath" 1940
New York Drama Critics Circle Award Best Play "Of Mice and Men" 1937 - 1938
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