John Steinbeck's Love For Reading And Writing

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John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902. Salinas was known as a very successful farming community in which John was very fond of and wrote many books that took place in this valley one being Of Mice and Men. He developed a love for reading and writing at a young age and went of to college in hopes that he could improve his writing skills. Steinbeck enrolled in Stanford University where he changed his courses plenty of times. Although the more courses he took the more knowledge he gained which helped him write many of his books. He left Stanford after six years without receiving a a degree. Despite not receiving a degree his books only got better from that point he began to base his books on issues occurring in history. For example