Among other things, Steinbeck wrote about the hard lives of workers.During his early years of writing, Steinbeck did many jobs.When Steinbeck was 27, his first novel was published.Over his lifetime he wrote a lot of fiction and non­fiction.Of Mice and Men (1937) became Steinbeck's first success.His novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, brought him even greater success.A year later he won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel.It is also for this novel that he is best remembered.Many of his books have been adapted (改编) for films and the theatre.

　　Steinbeck was first married in 1930 to Carol Henning.The marriage ended in divorce (离婚) in 1942.In 1943 Steinbeck moved to New York City where he lived for the rest of his life.He married the singer Gwyndolyn Conger in 1943 and had two sons, Thom, born in 1944, and John born in 1946.They were divorced in 1948 and two years later he married his third wife, Elaine Scott.

　　In 1962 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (文学)．And in 1964 President Lyndon B Johnson presented him with the United States Medal of Freedom.

　　He died of a heart attack in New York on December 20, 1968.

　　【答案速查】　1－4　ABDD

　　【语篇解读】　本文介绍美国作家Steinbeck传奇的一生。

　　1．What does the passage mainly talk about?

　　A．Steinbeck's life. B．Steinbeck's dream.

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