What is John Steinbeck?
{{nobelprize|Literature}} {{Infobox writer | name = John Steinbeck | awards = [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] (1940) <br />[[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (1962) | image = John Steinbeck 1962.jpg | caption = Steinbeck in Sweden during his trip to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 | birth_name = John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. | birth_date = February 27, 1902 | death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|12|20|1902|02|27}} | birth_place = [[Salinas, California]], United States | death_place = [[New York City]], U.S. | occupation = Novelist, short story writer, [[war correspondent]] | notableworks = ''[[Of Mice and Men]]'' (1937)<br />''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' (1939)<br /> ''[[East of Eden (novel)|East of Eden]]'' (1952)<ref name=nobel> The Swedish Academy cited ''The Grapes of Wrath'' and ''The Winter of Our Discontent'' most favorably. <br/>{{cite web| url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/press.html| title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962: Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy| work=NobelPrize.org| accessdate=April 21, 2008}}</ref> | signature = John Steinbeck signature.svg }} '''John Ernst Steinbeck Jr.'''<!-- '<ref>{{cite book|last=French|first=Warren G. |title=John Steinbeck |publisher=Twayne Publishers|year=1975|page=20|isbn=0-8057-0693-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=St. Pierre|first=Brian |title=John Steinbeck, the California years |url=https://archive.org/details/johnsteinbeckcal00stpi|url-access=registration|publisher=Chronicle Books|year=1983|page=[https://archive.org/details/johnsteinbeckcal00stpi/page/11 11]|isbn=0-87701-281-4}}</ref> --> ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|t|aɪ|n|b|ɛ|k}}; February 27, 1902&nbsp;– December 20, 1968) was an [[Americans|American]] [[writer]]. Steinbeck won the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1962. Some of his most famous works are ''[[Of Mice and Men]]'' (1937) and ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' (1940), which won a [[Pulitzer Prize]]. In these two books, Steinbeck writes about migrant workers during the [[Gre