![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His mother, Olive Hamilton, was a former schoolteacher who developed in him a love of literature. His father, John Steinbeck, served as Monterey County Treasurer for many years. John Ernst Steinbeck, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner, was born in Salinas, California February 27, 1902. Awards-Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, 1940.Education-Studied marine biology at Stanford University,.Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and beloved novels. Of Mice and Men also represents an experiment in form, as Steinbeck described his work, “a kind of playable novel, written in novel form but so scened and set that it can be played as it stands.” A rarity in American letters, it achieved remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films. An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness.Ĭlinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own-a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap.īut after they come to work on a ranch in the fertile Salinas Valley of California, their hopes, like “the best laid schemes o’mice an’ men,” begin to go awry. ![]()
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