Notes on John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck III (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Grapes of Wrath”, published in 1939 and the novel “Of Mice and Men”, published in 1937. In all he wrote twentyfive books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several short stories. In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
“Of Mice and Men” was Steinbeck's first attempt at writing in the form of novel-play. Structured in three acts of two chapters each, it is intended to be both a novel and a script for a play. He wanted to write a novel that could be played from its lines, or a play that could be read like a novel.
Steinbeck originally titled it “Something That Happened”, however, he changed the title after reading Robert Burns' poem, “To a Mouse”. Burns's poem tells of the regret the narrator feels for having destroyed the home of a mouse while plowing his field;......

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