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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∙ 12y agoHe won a noble prize for his work in literarure.
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∙ 10y agoJohn 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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∙ 13y agohe won the nobel prize
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∙ 13y agoJohn Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize.
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∙ 10y agoThe Nobel prize for Literature.
John Steinbeck was a famous American Author of numerous books.
There are no books called John Steinbeck. However John Steinbeck was an author and wrote several, some considered classics.
John Steinbeck received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his writing from Lyndon B. Johnson. He also received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
writing books
the life of cabbage
They are mainly about the loneliness of life
Three of John Steinbeck's popular books include:Of Mice and Men (1937)The Grapes of Wrath (1939)The Pearl (1947)