You will be given a trivia clue, and the category it belongs to. You should answer with the best answer that belongs in the category and is described by the clue. For simplicity, answers should be in all lower cased letters.

Category: 20th CENTURY AUTHORS 
Clue: A novel set during the Depression earned this author a 1940 Pulitzer Prize & contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in 1962
john steinbeck

Category: LITERATURE 
Clue: Northumbria in the "Age of Bede" or Mercia in Offa's reign are guesses as to where & when this work was created
beowulf

Category: OLYMPIC CITIES 
Clue: This city's Olympics were exactly 200 years after the death of the British cabinet secretary it was named for

sydney