As a boy, John grew up in a middle class family. He had to earn all of his own money while in school. He worked on ranches during the summer and also delivered papers on his bicycle. When he was growing up he was shy. He was often teased for his large ears. He most often resorted to reading books rather than retaliating and getting into fights with other children. In 1915 John enrolled in Salinas high school. While in high school he often wrote stories and anonymously sent them in to magazines. He was the president of his senior class and was one of 24 gradua

rough. He attended Stanford on and off for six years. He finally left Stanford in 1925, without a degree. (“John Steinbeck” , “John Steinbeck Biography”)

1939. This novel earned him a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. It was then adapted into a classic film. It went on to be named into the American Film Institute’s one hundred greatest films. John did not handle the stress that came with his success and fame very well at times. The negative effects of this eventually led to the fall of his marriage to Carol. The two were divorced in 1942. A year later John met and dancer/singer named, Gwen Conger and they married. The couple had two sons together. But like the first marriage, this one also fell apart and John and Gwen were divorced in 1948. By 1950 John had married his third wife, Elaine Scott. They did not have any kids. (“John Steinbeck Biography” , “John Steinbeck” , “Steinbeck, John (Ernst)”)

John also did other work during the summers and other times he was away from college. He worked as a farm laborer, where he sometimes lived in the farm bunkhouses with the migrants. After he left Stanford in 1925 he began to work on a freighter which took him to New York City. He started working construction and then later on to being a reporter for “The American”. He was making twenty-five dollars a week as a reporter, but he got fired because his reports were not objecti

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