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The title, Of Mice and Men is taken from a Robert Burns' poem which is typically paraphrased as, "The best-laid plans of mice and men, often go awry."

Steinbeck drew upon early experience working beside migrant farmworkers to write Of Mice and Men.

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Extensive media coverage included "Man-Animal Cells Are Bred in Lab," The [London] Sunday Times (February 14, 1965); and "Of Mice and Men," Washington Post (March 1, 1965).† (source)

Could you tell from reading Of Mice and Men how old the author was when he wrote it, where he lived, or how many children he had?† (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

If you read a novel— John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, for example …"† (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

OF MICE AND MEN† (source) John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937

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