John Steinbeck - National Steinbeck Center - Salinas, CA
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N 36° 40.610 W 121° 39.349
10S E 620107 N 4059865
Located on a boulder in from of the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas.
Waymark Code: WMPVK6
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 10/25/2015
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The quotation reads:
"'I would like to write
the story of this whole
valley, of all the little towns,
and all the farms, and the
ranches in the wilder hills. I
can see how I would like to do
it so it would be a mirror of the world.'
John Steinbeck"
This website (
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Wikipedia (
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"John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Red Pony (1937). The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939), widely attributed to be part of the American literary canon, is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece. In the first 75 years since it was published, it sold 14 million copies.
The winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been called "a giant of American letters".[5] His works are widely read abroad and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.
Most of Steinbeck's work is set in southern and central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists."