John Steinbeck (1902-1963) is an American author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. He was tried to continue the Lost Generation, and also one of the leading socialism and realism authors in 1930s. Steinbeck’s works can be classified into two types. One has strong social consciousness, and another one has full of gentle humanism. John Steinbeck was born in 1920 in Salinas, California, of German and Irish parentage. After he graduates from high school, he worked his way through college at Stanford University but left Stanford without receiving a degree due to the lack of school expenses. After that, he travels to New York City to begin his literary career as a writer and pursued a literary profession, both as a newspaper reporter and a laborer. However, it was …show more content…
Impoverished and malnourished, Steinbeck has no choice to return to California, and brought out his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929). It is a historical fiction based on Sir Henry Morgan’s life, but it was a complete failure. After finishing his first novel, he married his first wife in 1930, and he began to work with serious fiction. He published a collection of short stories: The Pastures of Heaven (1932), To a God Unknown (1933) which appeared his strongest statement about man’s relationship to the land, but it did not attracted attention either. In 1935, he became widely known with Tortilla Flat and the following year, he wrote In Dubious Battle (1936), aggressive in its social criticism. This was followed by Of Mice and Men (1937), which worked on his reputation, have been more resolute and also became a best-selling author. This is the tragic novella about complex bond between a pair of migrant workers, and it also dramatized, adapted into film. In 1938, he published a collection of short stories The Long Valley, and he published his masterpiece The Grapes of