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Death and legacy. The Steinbeck family graves in the Hamilton plot at the Salinas Cemetery. John Steinbeck died in New York City, where his writing career had begun, on December 20, 1968, during the 1968 flu pandemic of heart disease and congestive heart failure. He was 66, and had been a lifelong smoker.
3 days ago · John Steinbeck (born February 27, 1902, Salinas, California, U.S.—died December 20, 1968, New York, New York) was an American novelist, best known for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression decade and aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farmworkers.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Getty Images. (1902-1968) Who Was John Steinbeck? John Steinbeck was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and the author of Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of...
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He died in New York City in 1968. From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969 This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document ...
John Steinbeck The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962 . Born: 27 February 1902, Salinas, CA, USA . Died: 20 December 1968, New York, NY, USA . Residence at the time of the award: USA . Prize motivation: “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception” Language: English . Prize ...
May 23, 2018 · He died in New York City in 1968 at the age of sixty-six. His novel The Grapes of Wrath is considered a literary classic of the twentieth century. U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History
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John Steinbeck, one of six Americans to have won the Nobel Prize for literature, died late yesterday afternoon of severe coronary and valvular heart disease at his home, 190 East 72d Street. He...
