John Steinbeck was also a military man who fought in WWI. While being an American hero John Steinbeck also suffered from economic and social problems, meaning that he didn't have much money and he didn't keep long relationships. One of the reasons he suffered from social problems is because he drifted in and out of schools. John Steinbeck got a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel prize from his stories that he published. All of the stories that john Steinbeck published were about the common man during the Great Depression. When he was young he would block himself in his room
to write poems. An interesting fact about him was that he had 3 wives and 2 kids. But eventually died from heart failure.