John Steinbeck, full name John Ernst Steinbeck Jr., was born to John Ernst Steinbeck, a Monterey County treasurer and Olive Hamilton, a schoolteacher on 27th February 1902, in Salinas, California. He was a great writer and received Nobel Prize in the field of Literature in 1962. He wrote 27 books including 16 novels, 6 non-fiction books and five short stories collections. His novels, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden and Of Mice and Men won the Pulitzer Prize.
When was Shakespeare born?
Shakespeare full name William Shakespeare, a great English writer and poet, was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden on 26th April 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, England. Though Shakespeare’s birth date is baptised and unknown, it is traditionally observed on 23rd April. Shakespeare, the England’s national poet is also known as “Bard of Avon”.