John Steinbeck Of Mice And Men

Born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California, John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr was a great American writer. At the age of fourteen, Steinbeck decided to be a writer and attended Stanford University, but left without a degree. Steinbeck grew up in He wrote twenty-seven books, sixteen were novels, six were non-fiction, and five were collections of short stories. John Steinbeck is remembered for his novels Tortilla Flat and cannery Row, the epic East of Eden, and the novellas Of Mice and Men and The Red Pony. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940. John Steinbeck died of heart problems on December 20, 1962 in his home in New York City.