* * * John Steinbeck – Nobel Prize laureate for 1962.

The famous American writer John Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel "The Winter of Our Discontent". On this occasion, articles about the writer's creative path and personality were published in American newspapers. Two of them were published in the Soviet weekly "Abroad", from where we take them for our magazine. To the Bulgarian reader, John Steinbeck is known for his novels "The Wrath of the Ants" and "Tortilla Flat", as well as for the story "The Pearl".