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OF MICE AND MEN JOHN STEINBECK JOHN STEINBECK John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California, a region that became the setting for much of his fiction, including Of Mice and Men. JOHN STEINBECK In 1919, he enrolled at Stanford University, where he studied intermittently for the next six years before finally leaving without having earned a degree. JOHN STEINBECK JOBS INCLUDED: LABORER JOURNALIST IN NEW YORK CITY CARETAKER FOR A LAKE TAHOE ESTATE FILMMAKER JOHN STEINBECK NOVELS INCLUDED: CUP OF GOLD 1929 THE PASTURES OF HEAVEN 1932 TO A GOD UNKNOWN 1933 THE LONG VALLEY 1938 TORTILLA FLAT 1935 IN DUBIOUS BATTLES 1936 The Grapes of Wrath 1939 THE FORGOTTEN VILLAGE 1941 NOVELS CONTINUED SEA OF CORTEZ1941 BOMBS AWAY 1942 THE MOON IS DOWN 1942 CANNERY ROW 1945 THE WAYWARD BUS 1947 THE PEARL 1947 A RUSSIAN JOURNAL 1948 BURNING BRIGHT 1950 NOVELS CONTINUED THE LOG FROM THE SEA 1951 EAST OF EDEN 1952 SWEET THURSDAY 1954 THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT 1961 TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY IN SEARCH OF AMERICA 1962 OF MICE AND MEN Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 In his acceptance speech for the 1962 Nobel Prize in literature, Steinbeck said: . . . the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man’s proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. A poem by Robert Burns, To a Mouse is about a farm worker who plows up a mouse and the hard work the mouse had done to create a home for itself. The lineThe best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry is the reference of the title. Both the novel and the poem deal with weaker creatures who are trapped in a world where they have little power and they can be wiped out with little or no regard. In the poem , the farm worker loo