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John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California, a farming community with of about 2500 people. He was the third of four children and the only son of John Ernst and Olive Hamiton Steinbeck. His sisters Beth and Esther were much older than John and he felt closest to Mary, the youngest. He spent his childhood and adolescence in the Salinas Valley, which he later called "the salad bowl of the nation." John's mother, Olive, was the daughter of Irish immigrants. She left her parents' ranch to become a teacher. John remembered his mother as energetic and full of fun. He called his father, in contrast, "a singularly silent man." Steinbeck's father, also named John, worked as the treasurer of Monterey County. He had chosen a safe, practical course in life, in order to support his family.
John enjoyed literature from an early age on. His mother read him the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the stories of King Arthur.......

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