Steinbeck 's novel '' The Moon Is Down '' ( 1942 ) , about the Socrates-inspired spirit of resistance in an occupied village in Northern Europe , was made into a film almost immediately . It was presumed that the unnamed country of the novel was Norway and the occupiers the Nazis . In 1945 , Steinbeck received the King Haakon VII Freedom Cross for his literary contributions to the Norwegian resistance movement
King Haakon VII Freedom Cross
King Haakon VII Freedom Cross
John Steinbeck