Chapter 1: Author, Setting, and Characters

This is a picture of the setting in Of Mice and Men. The river is the Salinas River. Like in the book there is lots of green and some hills/mountains.

The man on the left is George. Like in the book he is wearing a black, shapeless hat, he is small and has a thin, bony nose.



This is a picture of Lennie. Like the description in the book this man is wearing a shapeless hat, he is huge like Lennie and has wide shoulders.

John Steinbeck III was born in Febuary 27 1902. He grew up in Salinas Valley, California. He wrote Of Mice and Men and Pulitzer Prize- winning novel The Grapes of Wrath. He died on the 20th of December, 1968 at the age of 66.