John Steinbeck's Observations Of Of Mice And Men

Steinbeck’s Observations of Mice and Men John Steinbeck was born on February 27th, 1902, in Salinas California, to first-generation Americans, John, and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck. He grew up in a moderate household, then worked, while attending Stanford University intermittently for six years before leaving without a degree, to work on his writing. Following his college years, he went on to work as a novelist, investigative journalist, and war correspondent. He ultimately became a Nobel Prize-winning author and one of America’s champions for the less fortunate and repressed. The statement in “John Steinbeck-Biographical,” that I found on Nobelprize.org is, in my opinion, a perfect description of his writing. It asserts, “Steinbeck's novels can all be classified as social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labour, but there is also a streak of worship of the soil in his books…” (Biographical 1). I believe that “streak,” brings a down-to-earth humanness and a heartfelt mood to his stories, in other words, it adds a piece of the author himself. Steinbeck has been one of my favorite

His works must have made some people extremely uncomfortable by shedding light on the atrocious conditions and discriminatory policies lower class Americans, and others were subjected to, by exploitative farm owners. According to, Claudia Durst Johnson, “At one time in the 1930s California agricultural associations called John Steinbeck the most dangerous man in America because of his support of the lowly farm worker” (Johnson xi). Of Mice and Men had to be one of the books that garnered that response. I imagine those “lowly farm workers” had a different view of him. What he put on paper shined a spotlight on these needy souls, promoting social and labor changes, which made him an agitator and enemy to some, but a hero to