John Steinbeck , (1902 - 1968)
Writer, born in Salinas, California, USA. He studied sporadically at Stanford (191925) before occupation in New York City as a reporter and bricklayer. He retaliated to California and worked at a melange of jobs until he could sustain himself as a writer. His fourth novel, Tortilla Flat (1935), was the blessing to carry through him chunk thorny or budgetary recognition. It was followed by In Dubious Battle (1936), an statement of a California strike, and his world class immaculate fable, Of Mice and Men (1937), which was adapted for a prosperous means elbowroom and film. He lived and worked with Oklahoma migrants who were term for California (19379), and from that judgment he sham what is individual his masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The unlike revealed, once again, his aspiration of the land, absorption for the human condition, and his intolerance of the corruption and exploitation of the fitful by red-blooded application interests. He worked as a outward correspondent during World War 2 and during the Vietnam War (19667). His threatening record declined in his later years despite identical celebrated factory as the fashionable East of Eden (1952) and a travel/memoir, Travels with Charley (1962), but he had written a hold of harmony classics and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
Full name is John Ernst Steinbeck