John Steinbeck was one of Americas best writers when it came to writing about people migrating and looking for the American dream during the depression. John Steinbeck was bor in Salinas, California. This place where he was born would later become some of the settings in his stories like "Of Mice and Men". During his younger years he attended a local High School, he then studied literature at Stanford University. He got out of college in 1925, after six years and not receiving a degree. After he disenrolled he moved to New York City and worked as a laborer and a journalist for several years. He later completed his first novel The Cup of Gold in 1929. Soon after that novel he married and returned to California where he continued his writing carrer. He published two more novels which gained him money and fame. He then started writing about the working class people in America, which he had been for a while. One of those stories was Of Mice and Men. A story of broken dreams and the lonliness of labores during that time.
             Of Mice and Men was a great story. It is about two migrant workers who are travelling around the country looking to make money and get some land. The two main characters are George and Lennie. The story starts out with them arriving at a ranch where they are to work. Lennie is a mentaly handicapped person who george looks after. They have to stay in a barn where all the workers stay. There they meet some of the other workers like Candy, an old and lonely worker who has an old and whithered dog as his only companion. They also meet Slim who is a skinner and who later gets close with George and lenny. There are also other characters like Crook's who is a black guy who as a twisted spine. Curley is also another character, he is the bosses son and is a trouble maker. The story goes through where lenny and George work on the farm and lenny always likes petting things. Lenny gets into it with Curley since Curly doesn't like...