But this as well as the next two works remained almost unnoticed by the critics. In 1929 he published his first novel: Cup of Gold, a biography of the English privateer Henry Morgan. So he soon returned to California, where he lived from casual work as he did in his student days. In 1925 Steinbeck went to New York as a journalist and freelance writer, but was not very well received there. In his later works, he often worked up his experiences he made in these milieus. It became more and more clear, that the student was rather unsatisfied with the life as an academic and he dropped out of university in 1924, realizing that his jobs had a much greater influence on him than his actual classes.
During semester breaks, Steinbeck worked on farms, at construction areas and factories. In 1919 he successfully applied for a degree at the prestigious Stanford University, where he took courses in English literature, classical literature and ancient history, journalism and other subjects that seemed useful to him for a career as a writer. As an accountant in a sugar factory and finally as a treasurer in Monterey County, John Ernst Steinbeck returned to modest prosperity and took a respectable position in Salinas. John Steinbeck showed a pronounced interest in literature even as a student and began writing stories himself. The father had initially run a mill, but it went bankrupt in 1910, causing the family temporary financial difficulties. John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, the son of John Ernst Steinbeck and the teacher Olive Hamilton. – John Steinbeck, New York Times (2 June 1969) Early Years And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.” “The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. His works comprise twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories, among them ‘ The Grapes of Wrath‘, ‘ East of Eden‘, and ‘ Of Mice and Men‘. On February 27, 1902, American writer and Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Laureate John Steinbeck was born.
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