John Steinbeck - The Author An
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He didn't know it at the time, but John Steinbeck started getting
ready to write The Grapes of Wrath when he was a small boy in
California. Much of what he saw and heard while growing up found its
way into the novel. On weekends his father took John and his three
sisters on long drives out into ....
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.... successes, his novel The Red Pony.) But don't think John
was pampered; his family expected him to work. He delivered newspapers and did odd jobs around town.
Family came first in the Steinbeck household. While not everyone saw
eye-to-eye all the time, parents and children got along well. His
father saw that John had talent and encouraged him to become a writer.
His mother at first wanted John to be a banker- a real irony when
you consider what Steinbeck says about banks in The Gr ....
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