★About the author: John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.(February 27,1902- December 20,1968)was an American writer.He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize- winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939),East of Eden (1952 and the novella of Mice and Men (1937).As the author of twenty-seven books,including sixteen novels,six non-fiction books,and five collections of short stories,Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962★ About the author: John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize￾winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). As the author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962