John
Ernst
Steinbeck Jr

February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968

Salinas, California

John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Red Pony (1937). The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939)[2] is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon.[3] In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14 million copies.