“If you’re in trouble or hurt or need, go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help, the only ones.”
- John Steinbeck
🧠 Who was John Steinbeck?
- Lived: 1902–1968
- Famous Works:
- The Grapes of Wrath : (won the Pulitzer Prize, 1940) a story about migrant workers during the Great Depression
- Of Mice and Men : about two displaced ranch workers dreaming of a better life
- East of Eden : a multigenerational family saga
- Cannery Row : set in a small California fishing town
- Award: Nobel Prize in Literature (1962)
For his “realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.”
Steinbeck wrote during the Great Depression and was known for giving a voice to the voiceless — especially poor, migrant, and working-class people in America.