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John Steinbeck 李佳瑞 John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. He was of German, English, and Irish descent. When he was young Steinbeck lived in a small rural town. He spent his summers working on nearby ranches and later with migrant workers on Spreckels sugar beet farms. There he became aware of the harsher aspects of migrant life and the darker side of human nature, which supplied him with material expressed in such works as Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck graduated from Salinas High School in 1919 and went from there to study English Literature at Stanford University , leaving without a degree, in 1925. He traveled to New York City where he took odd jobs while trying to write. When he failed to have his work published, he returned to California and worked in 1928 as a tour guide and caretaker at Lake Tahoe, where he met Carol Henning, his first wife. Steinbeck grew up in Californias Salinas Valley, a culturally diverse place with a rich migratory and immigrant history. Steinbecks first novel, Cup of Gold, published in 1929. After that, between 1930 and 1933 Steinbeck produced three shorter works. The Pastures of Heaven, published in 1932. The Red Pony, To a God Unknown in 1933. Steinbeck achieved his first critical success with Tortilla Flat (1935), a novel set in post-war Monterey, California. It portrays the adventures of a group of classless and usually homeless young men in Monterey after World War I, just before U.S. prohibition. They are portrayed in ironic comparison to mythic knights on a quest and reject nearly all the standard mores of American society in enjoyment of a dissolute life centered around wine, lust, camaraderie and petty theft. Steinbeck began to write a series of California novels and Dust Bowl fiction, set among common people during the Great Depression. These included In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. Of Mice and Men Published in 1937, it tells the story of George Milton