John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Writing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1902-02-27

  • Day of Death

    1968-12-20 (66 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Salinas, California, USA

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.

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