About the author

John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. He was a novelist, short story writer and war correspondent. Steinbeck started his carrier at Salinas High School where he wrote for the school magazine, already at this stage of his carrier he showed a talent for writing. After this he just have improved his skills of writing and has won the awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Price for Literature after he published the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" in 1939. Steinbeck died December 20, when he was 66 years old, in New York, United States.