英美短篇小 说Unit 18 The Chrysanthmums.pptVIP

____John Steinbeck Brief Introduction Awards Medals Writing Career Works The Chrysanthemum Characters Structure Summary Symbols Sentences Theme ?American novelist, playwright, and essayist ?Born on 27th February, 1902,in Salinas, California? ?He studied marine biology at Stanford University? John Steinbeck，(1902－1968), a significant American novelist、?story writer、?play writer、and essayist. He was born in Salinas , California. His father was a government official, and his mother a school teacher. He grew up at home reading British and French classics. He went to Stanford University (1919-1925), but never graduated. He worked as a farm laborer, a seaman, a newspaper reporter, a bricklayer, a chemist’s assistant, a surveyor, and a migratory fruit picker. Awards ?for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception ?the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962 He is awarded the title of American “National Literary arts Institute academician”（国家文艺学院院士）, and “The American literary arts study academician”（美国文艺研究院院士） Medals THE GRAPES OF WRATH?(1939), ?won in time the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. And in 1940 he obtained the Nobel Prize in literature nomination. At last John Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. William · Faulkner listed him as the present age ?“one of five biggest writers of fiction” . Writing Career Nearly 40 years’ writing career , he published 12 novels, 2 volume short story collections, 1 scientific experiments novel, 3 travel notes . He also set his foot in screenplay creation and photography. Works ?Tortilla Flat (1935) ?In Dubious Battle (1936) ?Of Mice and Men (1937) ?The Grapes of Wrath?(1939) ?The Moon Is Down (1942) ?The Pearl (1947) ?East of Eden (1952) ?The Winter of