in different and particular ways the Great Depression contributes to destroy the American migrant workers' dreams.
             John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902 and attended Stanford University between 1920 and 1926 but he didn't graduate because he had to work in order to support himself while writing.
             His first novel Cup of Gold was published in 1929, and three years later The Pastures of Haven and in 1933 To a God Unknown. These three novels were not successful ones. He had his first success with Tortilla Flat in 1935. The next novel he wrote was In Dubious Battle in 1936 the first novel of his to encompass the striking social commentary of his most notable work. He was acclaimed for the novel Of Mice and Men (1937) but it was with The Grapes of Wrath that he won the Pulitzer Prize. The novel describes the migration of a family to California and critiques their exploitation by a ruthless system of agricultural economics.
             After that, Steinbeck went to Mexico to collect marine life were collaborated in writing a study of the fauna of the Gulf of California. During the World War II he served as a war correspondent and wrote some affective pieces of government propaganda. After the war and with the end of the Great Depression his work became so
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