John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck was an American novelist and intellectual who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. His realistic and imaginative writing, which often explores themes of fate and injustice, is known for combining humor and social commentary. Born in Salinas, California, Steinbeck attended Stanford University but never graduated. He worked as a manual laborer while writing, which lent authenticity to his depictions of working-class lives.