John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, in 1902. Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968. Today, more than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures.

• A Russian Journal
• Travels with Charley in Search of America