John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck. (1902 - 1968). American writer and novelist.

Noteworthy

• Nobel Prize.
• Steinbeck received the King Haakon VII Freedom Cross for his literary contributions to the Norwegian resistance movement.
• World War II war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune.
• Accompanied the commando raids of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s Beach Jumpers program.
• Returned from the WWII with a number of wounds from shrapnel and some psychological trauma.
• Book: Of Mice and Men (1937).
• Book: The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
• Book: The Moon is Down (1942).
• Book: East of Eden (1952).

See Also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
• John_Steinbeck_quotes