Of Mice and Men

noun

1. a novel (1937) and play (1938) by John Steinbeck.

Example Sentences

Steinbeck’s fame, which had already been solidified by his bestselling 1937 novel "Of Mice and Men," was skyrocketing.

From Salon

Steinbeck, who had just published a bestselling novel, "Of Mice and Men," in February 1937, had found Collins while he was writing a series of articles on the plight of the Dust Bowl refugees for The San Francisco News which were published from October 5 to 12, 1936.

From Salon

He played the lead in a theatrical production of “On Golden Pond,” Big Daddy in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and Lennie Small in “Of Mice and Men.”

From Los Angeles Times

Not quite Old Yeller or Lenny in Of Mice and Men, but a mortal wound delivered on a round of golf.

From BBC

According to a 1987 report by the People for the American Way, “The Chocolate War” was by then the most-challenged book in the United States, ahead of “The Catcher in the Rye” and “Of Mice and Men.”

From New York Times