John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was born, February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, was the Monterey County Treasurer. His mother, Olive Hamilton, was a former school teacher. John Steinbeck published the novel, Of Mice and Men, in the year 1937. In the year 1962, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Then six year later John Steinbeck died in ,New York City, New York, on December 20, 1968. In Steinbeck's life, he wrote twenty-seven books, sixteen novels, 6 six non-fiction, and five collections of short stories. |