John Steinbeck

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia John Ernst Steinbeck Jr February 27 1902 December 20 1968 was an American writer He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel The Grapes of Wrath 1939 and East of Eden 1952 and the novella Of Mice and Men 1937 Author of twentyseven books including sixteen novels six nonfiction books and five collections of short stories Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 Description above from the Wikipedia article John Steinbeck licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia