John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902. He attended Salinas High School and later studied marine biology at Stanford University, but he never got his degree. Instead he moved to New York and became a reporter for the New York American, but he was fired because he was such a poor reporter. He then moved to Monterey County and worked odd jobs just to get by. As a child, Steinbeck read continually and was fascinated with the life of a 1600's English pirate, Sir Henry Morgan. In 1929 he wrote his first novel, Cup of Gold, which was based on Morgan's life. In 1930 John married his first wife, Carol Henning, but in 1943 they divorced. In Literature and its Times, it states, "Steinbeck's relationship with his wife Carol, affected where and probably how Of Mice and Men was written (274). He married later again that year to Gwyn Conger, and a third time in 1950 to Elaine Anderson. During his rough marriages, was when Steinbeck became well known. Cup of Gold, The Pastures of Heaven, and To a God Unknown were his first three novels, but unsuccessful. Steinbeck was controversial because of his support for the underprivileged. His novels were intentionally written for children,

Many of Steinbeck's novels are comparable. The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men were two of his works that were very similar. The novels both have realism type plots and the same setting. In the two novels people with low social status are dreaming of land ownership. Bloom said, "As in Of Mice and Men, we have in The Grapes of Wrath the joining of the old and new Steinbeck" (34). Some of the characters in the novels were also alike in some ways. Like Lennie, Pa Joad also represented an animal like character. Steinbeck gave both of those characters similar, but degrading characteristics.

but his writings transcended above their knowledge and interests; so they became popular to the adult readers. In 1937 Steinbeck concealed his fame with his novel Of Mice and Men. This novel was later made into a play version. In 1939 he wrote The Grapes of Wrath, which is his best-known fiction. It was the best selling book of 1939, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. Later it was made into an acclaimed film. The dominant themes in his work are based on the agriculture around his birthplace and the struggle between human beings and nature. John Steinbeck portrays the topic of human beings verses animals in nature in his novels The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.

In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck expresses the conflict of humans and animals. This novel focuses on the journey of newcomers who are looking for many jobs as farm workers in California. Instead they find themselves compet

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