John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which depicted the struggles of Dust Bowl migrants, as well as Of Mice and Men (1937) and East of Eden (1952).[1][2][5] He attended Stanford University but did not graduate, worked manual labor, and later served as a war correspondent before receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 for his realistic writings on social and economic issues.[1][2][4]