John Steinbeck
Born: February 27, 1902 –
Died: December 20, 1968 –
John Steinbeck was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. He won both the Pulitzer Prize for Of Mice and Men and Nobel Prize for Literature. Over his career, Steinbeck wrote 25 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books and several short story collections.
Many of his works, including Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1952), went on to become major Hollywood films, and Steinbeck even received an Academy Award nomination for Best Story in 1944 for Alfred Hitchcock´s Lifeboat.