John Steinbeck’s Animal-Nature Themes 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, …showed first 75 words of 1003 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1003 total…Of Mice and Men. In many of Steinbeck’s novels, it is obvious that in ways, he supported the underprivileged. His themes had an impact on American Literature by bringing out a new way of expression in writing. Although many people are not familiar with John Steinbeck, his themes brought out in his works are important. Many of them are used everyday. His writings are very meaningful and yet so simply overlooked in everyday living.