John_Steinbeck__Life_Of_An_American

John Steinbeck: Life Of An American “When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's works is all I can permit myself to contemplate.” The famous, and sometimes infamous John Steinbeck said this. He, one day at a time, wrote thousands of pages of engaging material for various newspapers, magazines, and his own books. He incorporated various writing styles and portrayed hundreds of different locations in his works, but through it all, he had one theme: injustice. He changed it through many sub themes: Homelessness, migration, poverty, moral responsibility, the underside of the American Dream, and The Common Man. Steinbeck had unlimited empathy for the working class. John Ernst Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902. He was born into a Middle Class family to German and Irish Parents. His father, John Steinbeck Sr., was a county treasurer. His mother, Olivia Hampton-Steinbeck, was a teacher who taught him love for the written word. He had three siblings, but was the only son of John and Olivia Steinbeck. He steinbeck, john, one, wrote, class, california, works, wrath, stories, steinbeck’s, received, men, medal, grapes, gold, born, years, writing, working, worked, work, various, until, time, several, olney, mice, first, different, common, books, award, york, year, written