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Steinbeck’s Collected Second World War Dispatches

John with Jack Wagner, London 1940s. Source: San Jose State University

As a war correspondent in London, then North Africa and later Italy, John Steinbeck always found stories about individuals and small groups of people: kids and chewing gum, the work of Bob Hope, and the toils, blood and dangers of the ordinary soldier, with whom he felt a great affinity and love. A love Steinbeck used, through his syndicated newspaper…

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By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

“If you have forgotten what the war was like, Steinbeck will refresh your memory. Age can never dull this kind of writing.”
–Chicago Tribune

Once There Was a War

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Aug 28, 2007 | ISBN 9780143104797

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Did John Steinbeck fight in a war?

In 1943, Steinbeck served as a World War II war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and worked with the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the CIA).

What did John Steinbeck do in the war?

During World War II, Steinbeck served as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. Around this same time, he traveled to Mexico to collect marine life with friend Edward F. Ricketts, a marine biologist.

Where did John Steinbeck grow up?

John Steinbeck (1902-1968), born in Salinas, California, came from a family of moderate means. He worked his way through college at Stanford University but never graduated. In 1925 he went to New York, where he tried for a few years to establish himself as a free-lance writer, but he failed and returned to California.