Definition of John Steinbeck

1. Noun. United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968).

Exact synonyms: John Ernst Steinbeck, Steinbeck
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of John Steinbeck

John Rock
John Roebling
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
John Ross
John Rowlands
John Roy Major
John Rupert Firth
John Ruskin
John Scopes
John Scott Haldane
John Simmons Barth
John Singer Sargent
John Singleton Copley
John Smith
John Speke
John Steinbeck (current term)
John Stuart Mill
John Thomas Scopes
John Tradescant
John Trumbull
John Tuzo Wilson
John Tyler
John Tyndall
John Uhler
John Updike
John Van Vleck
John Vanbrugh
John Venn
John Wain

Literary usage of John Steinbeck

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"THE MOON IS DOWN A Drama in Two Parts BY John Steinbeck IT was April 7 before Oscar Serlin, the producer, got John Steinbeck's drama of the military ..."

2. Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing As a Process by Carol B. Olson (1996)
"Second Example: In this section of The Red Pony, John Steinbeck could have just told ... Keep the way John Steinbeck reveals character in mind as you write. ..."

3. Past and Present of O'Brien and Osceola Counties, Iowa by John Licinius Everett Peck, Otto Hillock Montzheimer, William J. Miller (1914)
"John Steinbeck, the son of William and Anna ... John Steinbeck was given a good common school education and after leaving school continued to assist his ..."

4. California: Las Vegas, Reno, Baja California by John Gottberg (1999)
"Elsewhere in town is the John Steinbeck Bookstore and Museum (222 Central Avenue), where the author researched his famous novel East of Eden, a story set in ..."

5. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"... light of current community standards. In his Nobel Laureate speech (Dec. lo. 1962), Mr. John Steinbeck declared that literature was not " a game for the ..."

6. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... yet my mother, not contented, as being very fond of me, had me to Antwerp, to learn Flemish more exactly, to a kinsman of my father's, John Steinbeck, ..."

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