Author

Books by John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) was an American novelist and short story writer born in Salinas, California, the setting of East of Eden. He worked as a laborer, journalist, and war correspondent before his fiction drew national attention. His major works include Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, and Travels with Charley. The Grapes of Wrath won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940, and Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. He considered East of Eden, published in 1952, the book he had spent his life preparing to write.