John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) was an American novelist and writer whose work often takes place in central California, especially the Salinas Valley. He is widely known for Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, which won a Pulitzer Prize, East of Eden, and Cannery Row, and he won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. He also worked as an independent journalist and war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War.