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Of Mice and Men - American dream
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Of Mice and Men John Ernest Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. From a very small age he loved books, his mother Olive would constantly read fairly tales to him and therefore at the age of five he was a fluent reader. In the later years he studied and also worked in New York and various other places, where he gained his experiences, found ideas etc which resulted in him writing many books and articles such as The Pearl (1947) - in which a poor diver finds a spectacular pearl but it brings only disaster. He died due to heart failure in December 1968 and buried in his home land, Salinas, California and in his lifetime had written eight spectacular books. Of Mice and Men came about in John Steinbeck's mind when he was undertaking a series of unskilled jobs, farm labourer, manuals etc. Working in the ranches...
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