John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck III (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was one of the most famous American writers of the 20th century. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he is most well-known for his novella Of Mice and Men (1937) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), both of which examine the lives of the working class during the Great Depression.

External links

• Critical Resources: John Steinbeck
• National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, CA
• Imdb on Steinbeck's relations to films
• Nobel Laureate page
• 1989 Audio Interview with Robert Demott talking to Don Swaim about John Steinbeck, RealAudio
• FBI file at The Smoking Gun