John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck, born February 27, 1902 and died December 20, 1968, was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The novella Of Mice and Men is the most known novella he wrote.