... 27, 1902."(Bloom 11) Of Mice and Men is staged in the farmland of the Salinas valley, where John Steinbeck was born and which he loved all his life. John Steinbeck's father owned much of the farm land in the Salinas Valley, where John worked fruit picking, and doing odd jobs to earn some extra money when he was a young man in the 1920's and 1930's. Steinbeck worked as an extra ... farm hand, and did a lot of the same work ... own experiences, working on his father's farm, to create the setting in which Lenny and George lived and worked. Steinbeck depicted much of his father's farm, to c...

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• Approx Pages: 4

... 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. The play won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1937. After ... speech in Sweden, Steinbeck said: "The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams fo...

• Word Count: 963
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... 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. The play won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1937. After ... speech in Sweden, Steinbeck said: "The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams fo...

• Word Count: 954
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School