John Steinbeck the author

John Steinbeck was born February 27, 1902 and died December 20, 1968. He was born in Salinas Valley, California. He was an American writer and he wrote the novella we are reading about in our english class "Of mice and men" in 1937. In all, he wrote twenty five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. Some of his books have allsow been created as movies, like "of mice and men". "Of mice and men" is one of the famous works, next to the novel “The grapes of wrath”, a Nobel Prize winner from 1939. In 1968, Steinbeck died from a heart attack.