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John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940 for "The Grapes of Wrath" and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 for his overall contribution to literature. Additionally, he received the National Book Award for Fiction in 1939 for "The Grapes of Wrath."

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John Steinbeck received the following awards and honors:

1935 - Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Best Novel by a Californian (Tortilla Flat)

1936 - Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Best Novel by a Californian

(In Dubious Battle)

1938 - New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (Of Mice & Men)

1939 - Member of National Institute of Arts and Letters--American Booksellers' Award

1940 - Pulitzer Prize Fiction Award (The Grapes of Wrath)

1946 - King Haakon Liberty Cross (The Moon is Down)

1948 - Member of American Academy of Arts and Letters

1962 - Nobel Prize for Literature

1963 - Honorary Consultant in American Literature to the Library of Congress

1964 - United States Medal of Freedom

- Trustee of John F. Kennedy Memorial Library

- Annual Paperback of the Year Award

- Press Medal of Freedom

1966 - Member of the National Arts Council

1979 - US Postal Service issued a John Steinbeck Commemorative Stamp

1983 - Steinbeck Center Foundation started in Salinas, CA

1984 - American Arts Gold Medallion of Steinbeck issued by the US Mint

1993 - Steinbeck Center Foundation opens interim headquarters

1997 - National Steinbeck Center groundbreaking

1998 - National Steinbeck Center Grand Opening (June 27, 1998)

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He won a noble prize for his work in literarure.

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John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath in 1939.

He also won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

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he won the nobel prize

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John Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize.

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The Nobel prize for Literature.

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