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Life and Writing Style of John Steinbeck

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Steinbeck spent hours roaming the hills, and the beautiful expansive landscape. Many literary scholars ascribe to the belief that this is where he shaped his creative vision, and decided  as a teen to become a writer. This essay discusses a number of works by this prolific author, while examining elements relevant to his writing style, character development, themes, language  and the like. In addition, the importance of his work and its social implications is addressed. To please his parents he  enrolled at Stanford University; but only took courses that interested him -- literature, creative writing and a modicum of science. Without taking a degree he left in 1925, and sought  his fortune in New York. However, he soon returned to California to settle into writing seriously (Outline of Steinbecks Life and See Also Ditsky). Shortly thereafter, he  married and new wife, Carol settled into the Steinbeck familys summer home. She set about immediately to search for jobs to support them both, as he continued with his  writing. Her support soon panned out because in 1930 he was awarded the "Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Best Novel by a Californian" (Tortilla Flat).  In general (which is unjust), Steinbecks novels are classified as social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labor, but there is also a streak of worship of  nature and his sense of humor. Moreover, his remarkably diverse body of work also included nonfiction and screenplays. That he constantly challenged himself by experimenting with new ideas/ new  forms is a recurring theme in the portrait of this man whose writing reflected significant American social and political concerns -- from the Great Depression to Vietnam (Ditsky and