wrote exciting and moving stories about life during the Jazz Age, sharing the mood of life in a time of excess.

Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in Fitzgerald followed a few years later with The Great Gatsby in 1925, Tender is the Night (1934), and was working on the Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.

 Written in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is often referred to as "The Great American Novel," and as the quintessential work which captures the mood of the "Jazz Age."

captured the strength of poor migrant workers in the 1930’s, a time when the U.S. was going through the Great Depression.

 John Ernst Steinbeck was born in 1902 in the Salinas Valley California. At the age of nine, Steinbeck received a copy of Malory's Morte d'Arthur which proved to be one of the biggest influences in his literary career. He later took on the job as journalist for his High School newspaper.  John Steinbeck was a versatile writer. He has been described as a social-protest writer, a realist, a naturalist, a journalist, and a playwright. He has many strong themes running through his works.

 The most notable of John Steinbeck’s strengths are his writing of the family, the effects of the environment on man, and social protests.  His most famous book is The Grapes of Wrath published in Other favorites by John Steinbeck include The Pearl and Of Mice and Men.  Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his world wide contributions to literature.

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