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John Steinbeck

1902 - 1968

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John Ernst Steinbeck ( STYNE-bek; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters." During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Steinbeck has received more than 9,706,715 page views. His biography is available in 105 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 103 in 2019). John Steinbeck is the 182nd most popular writer (up from 186th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from United States (up from 160th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Writer.

John Steinbeck is most famous for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath.

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  • 105

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  • 6.93

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  • 6.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Steinbeck ranks 182 out of 7,302. Before him are Luigi Pirandello, Svetlana Alexievich, J. D. Salinger, Osamu Dazai, André Breton, and Nizami Ganjavi. After him are Aldous Huxley, Constantine VII, Tove Jansson, Dale Carnegie, Murasaki Shikibu, and Stanisław Lem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, John Steinbeck ranks 9. Before him are Charles Lindbergh, Georgy Malenkov, Paul Dirac, Leni Riefenstahl, Erik Erikson, and Carl Rogers. After him are Isaac Bashevis Singer, Halldór Laxness, Talcott Parsons, Eugene Wigner, Fernand Braudel, and Saud of Saudi Arabia. Among people deceased in 1968, John Steinbeck ranks 8. Before him are Helen Keller, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Luther King Jr., Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, and Padre Pio. After him are Lev Landau, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, Trygve Lie, Max Brod, and George Gamow.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Steinbeck ranks 158 out of 20,380. Before him are John Adams (1735), Tom Selleck (1945), Francis Ford Coppola (1939), J. D. Salinger (1919), James Monroe (1758), and John Wayne (1907). After him are Denzel Washington (1954), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), Herbert Hoover (1874), Dale Carnegie (1888), Jackson Pollock (1912), and Olympias (-375).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Steinbeck ranks 14. Before him are Jack London (1876), Toni Morrison (1931), Stephen King (1947), Dr. Seuss (1904), William Faulkner (1897), and J. D. Salinger (1919). After him are Dale Carnegie (1888), Ray Bradbury (1920), Herman Melville (1819), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Arthur Miller (1915), and Walt Whitman (1819).

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