John Steinbeck Bugatti Cordon Rouge ' Match sellers standing in

' Match sellers standing in the street

Post-war civilian production was under British military control until 1949

Danny Blanchflower

Lord Mayor of London 1458-1459

One man carries a basket

John Steinbeck Bugatti Cordon Rouge ' Match sellers standing inJohn Steinbeck, American novelist, c1939. John Ernst Steinbeck III (1902 1968) won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, dealing with the plight of family displaced to California by the Oklahoma dustbowls of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Among his other best known works are Of Mice and Men (1937) and East of Eden (1952). In 1962 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.