Rare vintage 1937 first edition of Steinbeck’s novel.

John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men, the story of the bond
between two migrant workers, is published. He adapted the book
into a three-act play, which was produced the same year. The
story brought national attention to Steinbeck’s work, which had
atarted to catch on in 1935 with the publication of his first novel, 
the successful Tortilla Flat.

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr.
(February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)

Steinbeck won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature 
"for his realistic and imaginative writings”..

Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021)

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel
Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights
and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died. South
African President Cyril Ramaphosa made the announcement 
Sunday.

African American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance
to racial prejudice in America. At 35 years of age, the Georgia-
born minister was the youngest person ever to receive the award.

1964

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BOHANNON

1975

On October 11, 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the
Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find
peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance
democracy and human rights, and to promote economic
and social development.”

Carter, a peanut farmer from Georgia, served one term as
U.S. president between 1977 and 1981. One of his key
achievements as president was mediating the peace talks
between Israel and Egypt in 1978.

James Earl Carter Jr. turned 96 October 1st.