11/11/2022 0 Comments The pearl john steinbeck en españolNovember 23: The stage version of Of Mice and Men opens in New York’s Music Box Theater. October (Mid): Steinbeck visits the migrant worker camps in Los Gatos. October: “The Chrysanthemums” is published in Harper’s Magazine. July: John and Carol travel from Sweden to Finland and then to the Russia.Īugust 13: The Steinbecks arrive in New York from Sandviken on the Toledo. May (Late): The Steinbecks sail from New York to Sweden. There they attend a dinner honoring Thomas Mann. March 23: Steinbeck and Carol set sail for Philadelphia from California.Īpril 15: Steinbeck and Carol arrive in Philadelphia and later take a train to New York. 1937įebruary 6: Of Mice and Men is published. November 25: Ed Rickett’s lab in Cannery Row burns to the ground.ĭecember: Saint Katy the Virgin is published. November 13: John attends the Western Writer’s Conference in San Francisco. October 5–12: John’s series of articles about the migrant worker problem are published in the San Francisco News. June 11: The California Literature Gold Medal is awarded to Steinbeck for Tortilla Flat. May 11: Steinbeck purchases land in Los Gatos, California. January (Early): John and Carol travel from Mexico to New York to sign the Tortilla Flat film deal and then return to California.Īpril (Mid): Steinbeck begins work on Of Mice and Men (originally titled Something That Happened). October: Still in Mexico, John receives a telegram that Paramount Pictures has purchased the film rights to Tortilla Flat. September: John and Carol travel to Mexico for a vacation and to escape the media attention Tortilla Flat has generated. 1935įebruary 5: Steinbeck completes the manuscript for In Dubious Battle. May: Steinbeck starts gathering information on farm labor unions in the Salinas area. March: Steinbeck accompanies Ed Ricketts on a specimen-hunting trip at Laguna Beach. September: To a God Unknown is published. 1933įebruary 11: Steinbeck sends To a God Unknown to his literary agents. October: The Pastures of Heaven is published. Campbell and Ed Ricketts also go to Alaska for a specimen-hunting trip. June: Carol Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell have an affair that is broken off by mutual consent. March: Carol gets a job working at Ed Ricketts’ lab. Mythologist and author Joseph Campbell comes to Monterey and meets Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts. October 29: Wall Street’s “Black Tuesday” crash signals the beginning of the Great Depression. May 24: Steinbeck achieves the degree of Master Mason at Salinas Lodge.Īugust: John’s first novel, Cup of Gold,is published. January 18: Steinbeck applies for admission to Salinas Masonic Lodge #204. Summer to Winter: Lives in Lake Tahoe, California, and works as a caretaker for a summer home. January: Steinbeck gets a job as a reporter for the New York American. The job lasts six weeks and he quits after a nearby worker is killed falling off a scaffolding. November: Steinbeck travels by freighter from Los Angeles to New York City.ĭecember: Steinbeck arrives in New York and gets a job on a Madison Square Garden construction crew. During these years, Steinbeck drops out for several months, and is employed intermittently as a sales clerk, farm laborer, ranch hand, and factory worker. John Steinbeck attends classes at Stanford University, leaving without a degree. Summer: Steinbeck works at the Post Ranch and tracks the Big Sur Bear. He was the third of four children and the only son of John Ernst II and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck. If you would rather view this timeline in a PDF format with sources, please click here.įebruary 27: John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California. To access this function, hold the control and "f" buttons down on your keyboard and then type your search term. If you are trying to find a specific event or work of Steinbeck's in this timeline, it may be of use to use the find function of your internet browser. I’ve also taken the liberty of including major world events into this timeline to place Steinbeck’s life in proper historical context. Where an exact date for an event is in question, I have attempted to note the estimation and why the estimation was made. One has to assume that Steinbeck’s own record is the most accurate available. The main source for referenced events in this timeline is Steinbeck: A Life in Letters. References to each event can be found in the Timeline Appendix of Steinbeck Citizen Spy. The majority of entries have a corresponding reference to aid in returning to material that seemed promising. I did not know what tidbits would be pertinent as I came across events in John’s life, so I compiled as detailed a timeline as possible. In doing research for Steinbeck Citizen Spy, it became quickly apparent that comparing Steinbeck’s travels and associations with government documentation might help me decipher Steinbeck’s dual life.
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