ernest steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck was born February 27, 1902 to Olivia and John Steinbeck. ... After he left Stanford, John Steinbeck worked as a manual worker while he wrote. ... Later Steinbeck turned Of Mice and Men into a play that opened in New York. This became a regular occurrence for Steinbeck; he would latter make many of his stories into films and plays. ... With the publication of his most famous novel there were government speculation that Steinbeck was a communist sympathizer. ... The novel showed Steinbeck’s preoccupation with the condition of the poor migrant workers. ... In the late Fifty’s Steinbeck was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and began work of East of Eden.