As a boy, John grew up in a middle class family. He had to earn all of his own money while in school. He worked on ranches during the summer and also delivered papers on his bicycle. When he was growing up he was shy. He was often teased for his large ears. He most often resorted to reading books rather than retaliating and getting into fights with other children. In 1915 John enrolled in Salinas high school. While in high school he often wrote stories and anonymously sent them in to magazines. He was the president of his senior class and was one of 24 gradua

John also did other work during the summers and other times he was away from college. He worked as a farm laborer, where he sometimes lived in the farm bunkhouses with the migrants. After he left Stanford in 1925 he began to work on a freighter which took him to New York City. He started working construction and then later on to being a reporter for “The American”. He was making twenty-five dollars a week as a reporter, but he got fired because his reports were not objective enough for them. John then tried having his short stories published and were unsuccessful. He then returned to California on a freighter. Upon his return to California, his first novel, “Cup of Gold”, was put in to print in 1929. This book was unsuccessful. In 1930 John married his first wife, Carol Henning, and moved to Pacific Grove. While John was always writing, Carol worked many different jobs in order to support the couple. John finally became successful in 1935 with his novel “Tortilla Flat” being published. John was awarded the California Commonwealth Club’s Gold Medal for best novel by a California author that year. He followed it with one of the most widely known books ever, “Of Mice and Men”, which was published in 1937. This book became an instant success and was immediately a best seller. Steinbeck had finally become a respected writer. This novel was shortly thereafter adapted into a play.

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