NOVEL PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1937


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 Steinbeck – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr.
(February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)


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