John Steinbeck

1: The Grapes Of Wrath won the Pulitzer Price.

2: John Steinbeck was born in 1902.

3: The Grapes Of Wrath, Of Mice And Men and The Forgotten Village were made in to Hollywood films.

4: Steinbeck wrote Of Mice And Men in  1937.

5: John Steinbeck was a war corespondent for the New York Herald Tribune during WWII.

6: Lyndon B. Johnson awarded him the United States Medal Of Freedom.

7: John’s museum is called The National Steinbeck Center.

8: Steinbeck was 66 years when he died.

9: The Moon Is Down tells us about the German occupation of Norway.

10: Of Mice And Men is about two farm workers, George and Lennie. Lennie is a strong guy with mental problems. He does lot of strange things. George is Lennie’s best friend, he looks after Lennie. They dream about having their own farm with some animals and a piece of land. But since Lennie does strange things and looses some jobs, their dream is a little unrealstic.