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.