Thomas Steinbeck, the eldest son of Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and a prominent author and screenwriter in his own right, died Thursday at his Santa Barbara home. He was 72. "The Grapes ...

An upcoming auction is making an intimate collection of the personal belongings of American author John Steinbeck available to the public for the first time. The collection includes an array of items ...

There’s the John Steinbeck most Californians know, the bard of the Salinas Valley and Cannery Row, the chronicler of the common man’s plight, the acclaimed author of such towering works as “The Grapes ...

As seasoned author living at South Lake Tahoe, I give credit to author John Steinbeck who lived and wrote here before I did. It was his adventurous lifestyle and love for dogs that paved the road for ...

John Steinbeck’s fiction is often held up as an exemplar of politically engaged art, but William Souder’s concise new biography, “Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck,” argues persuasively that ...

BOSTON — A heartfelt letter written by author John Steinbeck offering paternal advice to his teenage son who was experiencing love for the first time has sold at auction for more than $32,000. The two ...

In the fall of 1960 an ailing, out-of-sorts John Steinbeck, pretty much depleted as a novelist, decided that his problem was he had lost touch with America. He outfitted a three-quarter-ton pickup ...

John Steinbeck, the author of "The Grapes of Wrath," "Of Mice and Men" and "East of Eden," crafted something very different with the unpublished novel, the professor said. Bettmann Archive/Getty ...

A scholar of American literature at Stanford says it’s worth publishing. The agents representing the Steinbeck estate strongly disagree. By Heather Murphy Nine years before John Steinbeck published ...

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