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jan 1, 1926 - Steinbeck returns to California after a brief stint in New York.

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Following Stanford, Steinbeck moved to New York City to become a freelance writer. He found work as a construction worker and a newspaper reporter, but he returned to California after an unsuccessful year. For the next three years, he worked as a caretaker of a Lake Tahoe estate. During this time, he had copious amounts of time to draft his first novel.

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jan 1, 1926
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~ 100 years ago

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