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STEINBECK FACTS
Born: February 27,1902; 132 Central Avenue, Salinas, CA
(what is now the reception room of the Steinbeck House)
Graduated from Salinas High School--June 1919
Attended Stanford University--1919-1925
Died in New York, December 20,1968
Buried in the Garden of Memories Cemetery family plot in Salinas
STEINBECK FAMILY
Father: John Ernst Steinbeck,1863-1935, County Treasurer
Mother: Olive Hamilton Steinbeck,1867-1934, Teacher
Sisters: Elizabeth Steinbeck Ainsworth, May 25,1894 - Oct. 20, 1992, lived in Pacific Grove, CA
Esther Steinbeck Rodgers, April 14,1892 - May 9,1986; lived in Watsonville, CA
Mary Steinbeck Dekker, Jan 9,1905 - January 23,1965; buried in family plot
Wives:
Carol Henning Steinbeck Brown, married 1930 and divorced1942;
lived in Carmel Valley, CA, died February 8, 1983, Monterey, CA
Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck, married 1943 and divorced 1948
died on December 30,1975, Colorado
Elaine Anderson Scott Steinbeck, married 1950, lives in New York
Sons:
Thomas Steinbeck, August 2,1944
John Steinbeck IV, June 12, 1946 - February 7,1991
(mother of Thomas and John IV is Gwyndolyn)
STEINBECK AWARDS & HONORS
1935 - Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Best Novel by a Californian (Tortilla Flat)
1936 - Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Best Novel by a Californian
(In Dubious Battle)
1938 - New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (Of Mice & Men)
1939 - Member of National Institute of Arts and Letters--American Booksellers' Award
1940 - Pulitzer Prize Fiction Award (The Grapes of Wrath)
1946 - King Haakon Liberty Cross (The Moon is Down)
1948 - Member of American Academy of Arts and Letters
1962 - Nobel Prize for Literature
1963 - Honorary Consultant in American Literature to the Library of Congress
1964 - United States Medal of Freedom
- Trustee of John F. Kennedy Memorial Library
- Annual Paperback of the Year Award
- Press Medal of Freedom
1966 - Member of the National Arts Council
1979 - US Postal Service issued a John Steinbeck Commemorative Stamp
1983 - Steinbeck Center Foundation started in Salinas, CA
1984 - American Arts Gold Medallion of Steinbeck issued by the US Mint
1993 - Steinbeck Center Foundation opens interim headquarters
1997 - National Steinbeck Center groundbreaking
1998 - National Steinbeck Center Grand Opening (June 27, 1998) |
