John Steinbeck Essay Examples

February 27, 1902
Salinas, California, U.S.

December 20, 1968 (aged 66)
New York City, U.S.

Novelist short story writer war correspondent

Of Mice and Men (1937)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
East of Eden (1952)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1940)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1962)

He was an American writer and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters."