- Born
- February 27, 1902
- Died
- December 20, 1968 (aged 66)
- Place of birth
- Salinas, California, USA
- Also known as
- John Ernst Steinbeck, John Ernst Steinbeck Jr.
- Titles
- 21 titles
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Steinbeck, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
