John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck
About the person
Career:
Writing
Date of birth:1902-02-27
Place of birth:Salinas, California, USA
Gender:Male
Popularity:0
Date of death1968-12-20
66Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). Author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.