John Steinbeck

The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies is the world's largest collection of Steinbeck literature, located on the San José State University campus.

Submitted by harold 5 months ago

John Steinbeck's birthplace and boyhood home is now a restored Victorian home and luncheon restaurant.

Submitted by cressida 6 months ago

Centered on the life of John Steinbeck.

Submitted by cressida 6 months ago

Excerpt:
Hello
I'm a junior in high school and this semester I decided to take an online course called Young Adult Literature. For this class, we were required to read Of Mice and Men, and I ended up loving this story. Now for one of our final assignments, we were told to write a letter to the author of our favorite book that we have read this semester. I choose John Steinbeck's novel, but I obviously can't write a letter to him. My teacher suggested I write to a John Steinbeck fan club, so this I what I am doing now, although I don't know if this is the right way of writing to you or...

I have borrowed this meme from Alix Mortimer because it looks like a bit of fun for a lazy Sunday afternoon .

During the Great Depression, farmers would destroy crops in order to create some kind of floor price for their fruits and vegetables, even though many of their fellow citizens were starving to death.

A half century ago, the city of Monterey changed the name of Ocean View Avenue to Cannery Row in honor of John Steinbeck's classic 1945 novel.

Though it's been six years since Lenny Kaplan, 71, left the restaurant business, he's still one of Baltimore's best-known restaurateurs.

"Undiscovered Country" reminds me of the first meeting between John Gardner and Edward Abbey.