John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 - December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he wrote "Of Mice and Men" (1937) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), both of which examine the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Dust Bowl and subsequent Great Depression. Wikipedia
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During World War II Steinbeck wrote several effective pieces of propagandistic fiction, among them The Moon Is Down (1942; film, 1943), a novel of Norwegians under the Nazis, and also served as a war correspondent. www.americanwriters.org/writers/steinbeck.asp