Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck published in 1937

1. Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck published in 1937. Steinbeck's stories loosly mirror his life experiences. In Mice and Men the story reflects his own experiences as a bindlestiff in the 1920s before the arrival of the Okies. Steinbeck would vividly describe the Okies in his later novel The Grapes of Wrath.