Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men is a novella written by author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States. Steinbeck based the novella on his own experiences working alongside migrant farm workers as a teenager in the 1910s (before the arrival of the Okies he would vividly describe in "The Grapes of Wrath"). The title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a
G. Milton Small and Associates Office Building on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. G. Milton Small and Associates Office Building G. Milton Small and Associates Office Building is a historic home and office located on Brooks Avenue in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect G. Milton Small (1916-1992), who also designed the Small House, and built in 1966. It is a one floor, steel-frame Miesian style building that covers most of a 69-foot by 155-foot flat lot. It features grids of aluminum mullions carrying metal panels and sheets of glass, and an overhanging flat roof. It housed the architecture firm