And because the story has been told so often, it has taken root in every man's mind. They tell of Kino, the fisherman, and of his wife Juana, and of the baby, Coyotito. In the town they tell the story of the great pearl - how it was found and how it was lost again. There is not a word, not a sentence in this story that has not been deeply felt by the author men and animals, even the dead things breathe out an equally strong sense of life.

A simple fisherman, Kino, together with his wife Juana and the baby Coyotito, is torn from his environment by finding a pearl and thrown into a new world completely strange to him, in which right has been turned into wrong. Bombs Away: The Story of Bomber Team (1942)Īnd finally there is his little story The Pearl (1948), a simple, well constructed and yet exciting story about the world of primitive, naive human beings. In 1962 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He received the prize for his exiting novel “The Grapes of Wrath'. John Steinbeck wrote a great deal, but remained fairly unknown till he got the Pulitzer Prize in 1940, a distinction which, for the first time, drew the attention of the public to him. He worked as a dish-washer, a bricklayer, a porter and finally as a newspaper-reporter. Later he got jobs in New York, which were in no way different from the usual jobs taken up by unskilled workers in America.

He looked for work in all possible spheres, particularly in the country where he got to know the conditions under which farm- hands had to work. He did not, how-ever, pass any final examination. He studied at Stanford University for some years (from 1919 to 1925), and took particular interest in biology, a course of studies that taught him how to make exact observations. He was of Westfalian descent on his father's side, his father was half- German, and of Irish on his mother's side. John Steinbeck was born in 1902, in Salinas, California.

Coyotito the pearl