... a lot of action. He had many odd jobs. He worked as a ranch hand, joined a road-building gang, worked in a sugar beat factory, and even helped in the construction of Madison Square Garden. After a couple more tries at getting some his work published Steinbeck returned to California in order to write his first novel. He worked at a Lake Tahoe Lodge, because that ... advance from the publisher. During this time Steinbeck met a person who changed him into a much more profound person. Ed Ricketts, an owner of a biological supply company in Monterey, just a couple miles north of Salinas. "Ri...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... of the majority of his works. John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902. His father's family, originally called Grossteinbeck, had come from Wuppertal, about twenty miles east of the German city of Dusseldorf. During summers he worked as a hired hand on nearby ranches, "nourishing" his impression of the California countryside and its people (Lisca 32). He ... Stanford permanently in the fall of 1925 without a degree (Fontenrose 3). In New York City, his brother-in-law found him a job pushing wheelbarrows for the construction of the original Madison Squar...

• Word Count: 2015
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... a lot of action. He had many odd jobs. He worked as a ranch hand, joined a road-building gang, worked in a sugar beat factory, and even helped in the construction of Madison Square Garden. After a couple more tries at getting some his work published Steinbeck returned to California in order to write his first novel. He worked at a Lake Tahoe Lodge, because that ... advance from the publisher. During this time Steinbeck met a person who changed him into a much more profound person. Ed Ricketts, an owner of a biological supply company in Monterey, just a couple miles north of Salinas. "Ri...

• Word Count: 1424
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School