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.

References

• Jay Parini (1995), John Steinbeck: A Biography, Henry Holt & Co.
• "Writer in the American Grain," Charles Poore, New York Times December 21, 1968 p. 31
• "The Other Side of Eden", the life of John Steinbeck IV and Nancy Steinbeck