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John Steinbeck letters.
MANUSCRIPT SMCII : Box 25 : Folder 2
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Title:

John Steinbeck letters

Creator/Contributor:

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Groves, Katherine.

Abstract:

Correspondence from John Steinbeck to Katherine (Trina) Groves, the daughter of Steinbeck's Stanford professor William Herbert Carruth, from whom he took Verse Writing and Prosody in the spring of 1923. This correspondence was written in the 1960s regarding Steinbeck's work in verse and contains two examples written for Carruth's class, as well as a poem Steinbeck translated from Lithuanian into his own language. Also included is a letter written by Groves in 1974 regarding Steinbeck's verse, possibly for publication.

Date:

1923 (issued)

Subject:

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Note:

John Steinbeck, one of the greatest American writers of the 20th Century, was born in Salinas, CA on February 27, 1902. He attended Stanford University from 1919 to 1925, and subsequently wrote many notable works, among them Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, the Grapes of Wrath, and East of Eden. Many of Steinbeck's novels were set in the Central California Coast, where he was born and spent much of his life. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, and died in New York on December 20, 1968.
Steinbeck
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Physical Description:

print
6 letters and poems, 8 1/2 x 11 in.

Language:

English

Identifier:

MANUSCRIPT SMCII : Box 25 : Folder 2

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.