John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, in 1902, the son of a county treasurer and a schoolteacher. He attended Stanford for six years without taking a degree, worked as a farm labourer and as caretaker of an estate at Lake Tahoe, and in 1936 published, for a San Francisco newspaper, reports on the migrant camps of the San Joaquin Valley. He received the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his realistic and imaginative writings, in which sympathetic humour and keen social perception are combined. Kept under surveillance by the federal police for his supposed left-wing sympathies, he died in New York in 1968.

In the catalogue 2

• NovelOf Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck · 1937Literature
• NovelThe Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck · 1939Literature