No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
—John Steinbeck in The Winter of Our Discontent
About John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck ( STYNE-bek; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."