John Steinbeck with "Tortilla Flat" (1935), a novel set in post-war Monterey, California, that won the California Commonwealth Club's Gold Medal. It portrays the adventures of a group of classless and usually homeless young men in Monterey after World War I, just before U.S. prohibition. They are portrayed in ironic comparison to mythic knights on a quest and reject nearly all the standard mores of American society in enjoyment of a dissolute life devoted to wine, lust, camaraderie and petty theft. In presenting the 1962 Nobel Prize to Steinbeck, the Swedish Academy cited "spicy and comic tales about a gang of "paisanos",
John Moore (American author) in English. As for his other novels, "Slay and Rescue" is available in all three languages; "The Unhandsome Prince" in Czech and Russian, and "Heroics for Beginners" in Czech and German. "Heroics for Beginners" and "Bad Prince Charlie" were also published in Poland. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a source for all listings except where noted otherwise. John Moore (American author) John F. Moore (born June 15, 1959) is an American engineer and a writer of fantasy and science fiction primarily under the short name John Moore. John Moore grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia. After high