On October 25, 1962, the Nobel Prize committee announced that they selected American author John Steinbeck as the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Steinbeck was selected from a pool of 65 other writers from around the world.
His first nomination for the prize was in 1943 and throughout his career he was nominated eleven times.
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