John steinbeck biography mice and men

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    Of Mice and Men

    novella by John Steinbeck

    "Mice and Men" redirects here. For the unrelated film, see Mice and Men (film). For other uses, see Of Mice and Men (disambiguation).

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    AuthorJohn Steinbeck
    Cover&#;artistRoss MacDonald
    LanguageEnglish
    GenreTragedy
    PublisherCovici Friede

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    Publication placeUnited States
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    Of Mice and Men is a novella written by American author John Steinbeck.[1][2] It describes the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrantranch workers, as they move from place to place in California, searching for jobs during the Great Depression.

    Steinbeck based the novella on his own experiences as a teenager working alongside migrant farm workers in the s, before the arrival of the Okies whom he would describe in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. The title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse": "The best laid schemes o'

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    John Steinbeck, American Writer

    John Steinbeck was born in the farming town of Salinas, California on 27 February His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, was not a terribly successful man; at one time or another he was the manager of a Sperry flour plant, the owner of a feed and grain store, the treasurer of Monterey County. His mother, the strong-willed Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, was a former teacher. As a child growing up in the fertile Salinas Valley —called the "Salad Bowl of the Nation" — Steinbeck formed a deep appreciation of his environment, not only the rich fields and hills surrounding Salinas, but also the nearby Pacific coast where his family spent summer weekends. "I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers," he wrote in the opening chapter of East of Eden. "I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer-and what trees and seasons smelled like."
    The observant, shy but often mischievous only son had, for the most part, a

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    John Steinbeck

    American writer (–)

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    John Ernst Steinbeck (STYNE-bek; February 27, &#;– December 20, ) was an American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception".[2] He has been called "a giant of American letters."[3][4]

    During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat () and Cannery Row (), the multigeneration epic East of Eden (), and the novellas The Red Pony () and Of Mice and Men (). The pris Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath ()[5] is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon.[6] bygd the 7