John Steinbeck - Salinas, CA
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N 36° 40.610 W 121° 39.345
10S E 620113 N 4059865
Located at the National Steinbeck Center.
Waymark Code: WMPVM2
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 10/25/2015
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This life-sized sculpture of author John Steinbeck is located at the Center devoted to the examination and discovery of his works which focussed on this area of California.
It depicts the author sitting, legs crossed, left hand reaches outward as if making a point while talking or thinking while his right hand has a pen and is poised to make a not on the pad in his lap. The piece is probably made of some type of polymer. No artist or date is indicated.
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". 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."