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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.
2 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 · Steinbeck died of heart disease on December 20, 1968, at his home in New York City. QUICK FACTS Name: John Steinbeck
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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...
Dec 20, 2018 · He had an operation on a detached retina, an operation to remove varicose veins and another to repair a shattered knee cap after a balcony rail gave way on the second floor of his Manhattan home....
Feb 22, 2008 · Question: When did John Steinbeck die and where is he buried? Answer: John Steinbeck died of heart failure on 20 December 1968, in New York, N.Y, United States. On 4 March 1969, his ashes were buried in the Garden of Memories cemetery in Salinas in the Hamilton Family plot.
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Wounded by the blindside attack, unwell, frustrated and disillusioned, John Steinbeck wrote no more fiction. But the writer John Steinbeck was not silenced. As always, he wrote reams of letters to his many friends and associates.
