![]() ![]() His third novel, Tortilla Flat (1935), was a critical and financial success, as were such subsequent books as In Dubious Battle (1935) and Of Mice and Men (1937), both of which offered social commentaries on injustices of various types. ![]() Steinbeck’s father gave the couple a house and a small income while Steinbeck continued to write. In 1930, he married Carol Henning, the first of his three wives, and moved to Pacific Grove, California. ![]() His first two novels were not successful. In 1925, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a manual laborer and a journalist while writing stories and novels. A good student and president of his senior class in high school, Steinbeck attended Stanford intermittently in the early 1920s. Steinbeck was born and raised in the Salinas Valley, where his father was a county official and his mother a former schoolteacher. The story brought national attention to Steinbeck’s work, which had started to catch on in 1935 with the publication of his first successful novel, Tortilla Flat. He adapted the book into a three-act play, which was produced the same year. John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men, the story of the bond between two migrant workers, is published. ![]()
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