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Instantly recognized by many a high school literature student, Steinbeck is probably best known for his works of Depression-era fiction, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and Of Mice and Men (1937).
Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for literature, and published a total of 25 books.l Steinbeck was born and raised in Salinas, California. He served as an acolyte and choir member at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salinas where, it is said, he dropped a cross onto a visiting bishop's head and thus his lead acolyte privileges. Many of Steinbeck's books were also made into plays and films, including Tortilla Flat (1942), The Red Pony (1949), and East of Eden (1955).
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