Who Is John Steinbeck's Life In Of Mice And Men

John Steinbeck was born and raised in Salinas California. The story Of Mice and Men takes place in Soledad California, a few miles south of Salinas. This influenced Steinbeck writing. He knows all about this part of California and how the people were treated. There were farms everywhere. According to John Steinbeck's biography that part of the country was considered “the Salad Bowl of the Nation.” Being his home town it influenced him so much that he even wrote a novel about Salinas called East of Eden. The story Of Mice and Men emphasizes on how lonely ranchers are. He must have seen this during his early life in Soledad, and proceeded to write about it. In his biography It said that in 1933 he wrote to a friend “I think I would like to write