Of mice and men Flashcards
What is the setting of the story
Salinas Valley, California. Great depression of the 1930s
The title references what poem?
Robert Burns’s “To a Mouse”
When was it pubslished
February 25, 1937
What was the story originally supposed to be
A potential play with one setting for each chapter
When did Of Mice and Men open on broadway?
In NYC on November 23, 1937
When was John Steinbeck born?
February 27, 1902
Where did Steinbeck go to college?
Stanford after getting B’s in school
What job did he get, but then get fired from
A reporter
When did Steinbeck first get married and to who
In 1930 to Carol Henning
What brought Steinbeck immediate fame and wealth?
Publishing Tortilla Flat in 1935
What won Steinbeck Pulitzer prize and a place in the national institute of arts and letters?
The Grapes of Wrath
When did Steinbeck and Carol get divorced
1942
After he got married a second time, what did Steinbeck do?
He moved away from California and published a dozen novels
What did he write as his contributions to the war cause and what did it do?
He wrote Bombs Away for the army corps and it helped recruit soldiers, and royalties from the movie went to the Air Corps
What is Cannery Row about?
A group of men that have deliberately detached themselves from the social system
What did The Pearl first appear as
A motion picture script
Who did Steinbeck serve as advisor to?
President Johnson
What was Steinbeck awarded in 1964
The United States Medal of Freedom
What did Steinbeck win in 1962?
The Nobel Prize for literature
Who was his 3rd marriage?
Elaine Scott in 1950
When did Steinbeck die
Late 1968
