Civic Calendar: Remembering Longfellow and Steinbeck

The Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program of the UAA Honors College calls the attention of the University community to the anniversary of the births of distinguished American writers Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Steinbeck, February 27.

Longfellow, born in 1807, was a poet who wrote accessible work for general audiences. His most famous poems include "Paul Revere's Ride," "Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline." He lived most of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, dying there March 24, 1882.

Steinbeck, born in 1902, grew up in the Salinas Valley of California. He is best known for his novel "Grapes of Wrath" and his novella "Of Mice and Men." He wrote 16 novels and a number of other works. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He died Dec. 20, 1968, in New York City.