Ocupation: Author
Life: February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968
Birthday: February 27
Death: December 20
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.
source: John Steinbeck (1995). “The Long Valley”, p.51, Penguin
topic: Boys, Men, Years, Forty Years Old