JOHN STEINBECK

John Steinbeck was born 1902 i Salinas, California. In 1919 he graduated from Salinas High School, and showed a huge talent when he wrote in the school magazine. After leaving the university in 1925 without any degree, he went to New York to seek his fortune as a journalist.
Of Mice and Men was his first commercial success.
During the World War II he wrote propaganda for the government and became a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. After 1943 he only produced three novels that are read widely today.
In all of his books he shows a deep love of humanity, especially of the working man with all his flaws and virtues. Even though most of his novels take place in a certain area in the USA, his books are stories of experiences, the human life an sufferings.
John Steinbeck got the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 and died of heart disease in 1968.