"home in California to attend any performance of the play during its New York run, telling director George S. Kaufman that the play as it existed in his own mind was ""perfect"" and that anything presented on stage would only be a disappointment. Steinbeck wrote two more stage plays (""The Moon Is Down"" and ""Burning Bright""). ""Of Mice and Men"" was also adapted as a 1939 Hollywood film, with Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lennie (he had filled the role in the Los Angeles stage production) and Burgess Meredith as George. Meredith and Steinbeck became close friends for the next two"
"National Steinbeck Center in Salinas. John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."" He has been called ""a giant of American letters,"" and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels ""Tortilla Flat"" (1935) and ""Cannery"
"(1902–1968) was born in Salinas, California, where he set many of his stories. His style was simple and evocative, winning him the favor of the readers but not of the critics. Steinbeck often wrote about poor, working-class people and their struggle to lead a decent and honest life. ""The Grapes of Wrath"", considered his masterpiece, is a strong, socially-oriented novel that tells the story of the Joads, a poor family from Oklahoma and their journey to California in search of a better life. Other popular novels include ""Tortilla Flat"", ""Of Mice and Men"", ""Cannery Row"", and ""East of Eden"". He"
"Thomas Steinbeck Thomas Myles Steinbeck (August 2, 1944 – August 11, 2016) was an American novelist, screenwriter, photographer, and journalist. He published numerous works of fiction, including short stories and novels. He was the elder son of American novelist John Steinbeck. Thomas (""Thom"") Steinbeck was born in Manhattan, New York City, to American novelist John Steinbeck and his second wife, singer-composer Gwyndolyn Conger on August 2, 1944. His younger brother John Steinbeck IV, was born two years later. His parents' marriage dissolved four years after he was born, and subsequently ""Thom"" spent a great deal of time with his father."
"John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."" He has been called ""a giant of American letters,"" and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels ""Tortilla Flat"" (1935) and ""Cannery Row"" (1945), the multi-generation epic"
"tells of traveling throughout the United States in a specially made camper he named Rocinante, after Don Quixote's horse. His travels start in Long Island, New York, and roughly follow the outer border of the United States, from Maine to the Pacific Northwest, down into his native Salinas Valley in California, across to Texas, up through the Deep South, and then back to New York. Such a trip encompasses nearly 10,000 miles. According to Thom Steinbeck, the author's oldest son, the real reason for the trip was that Steinbeck knew he was dying and wanted to see his country one"
"display. The 2017 festival the Salinas Chinatown Virtual Walking Tour. The John Steinbeck House was the birthplace and childhood home of author John Steinbeck, and is now home to a restaurant. The house was built in 1897 and is a Queen Anne style Victorian. Just outside the official city limits, the restored adobe dwelling constructed in 1844 by José Eusebio Boronda, rests on one of the original Mexican land grants. The Boronda Adobe is a California Historical Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places and holds a museum of early Salinas and California history. Other historic buildings"
"California poet Robinson Jeffers. Monterey County attractions Monterey County is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California, its northwestern section forming the southern half of Monterey Bay. As of 2000, the population was 401,762. The coastline includes Big Sur, State Route 1, and the 17 Mile Drive on the Monterey Peninsula. The city of Monterey was the capital of California under Spanish and Mexican rule. The economy is primarily based upon tourism in the coastal regions, and agriculture in the Salinas Valley. Monterey County was home to writer and Nobel prize laureate John Steinbeck, writer"
"John Steinbeck IV John Ernst Steinbeck IV (June 12, 1946 – February 7, 1991) was an American journalist and author. He was the second child of the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. In 1965, he was drafted into the United States Army and served in Vietnam. He worked as a journalist for Armed Forces Radio and TV, and as a war correspondent for the United States Department of Defense. In 1968, Steinbeck returned to Vietnam as a journalist. Along with Sean Flynn (the son of actor Errol Flynn), he started Dispatch News Service, which originally published Seymour Hersh's story on"
"story ""Eisenheim the Illusionist"" was adapted into the 2006 film ""The Illusionist"", was born in New York City and raised in Connecticut. More recently, Stephen King, born in Portland, Maine, has used the small towns of his home state as the setting for much of his horror fiction, with several of his stories taking place in or near the fictional town of Castle Rock. Just to the south, Exeter, New Hampshire was the birthplace of best-selling novelist John Irving and Dan Brown, author of ""The Da Vinci Code"". Rick Moody has set many of his works in southern New England,"
"the United States with his family in 1890. However other sources, including Ratigan, and Steinman himself have him born in New York in 1887. Steinman grew up in New York City, New York, and was raised in the shadows of the Brooklyn Bridge. The Williamsburg Bridge was constructed as he grew up. The late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries were a time of significant bridge construction in the area, and he later said this is where he got his first interest in bridges. Because his family had little money, he worked to put himself through both the City College of"
"The Long Valley The Long Valley is a collection of short stories written by the American author John Steinbeck. The collection was first published in 1938. It comprises 12 short stories. The short stories were written over several years and are set in Steinbeck's birthplace, the Salinas Valley in California. They include the prize-winning tale ""The Murder""; ""The Chrysanthemums""; the representation of lynch mob violence in ""The Vigilante"", inspired by the lynching of the confessed murderers of Brooke Hart; and the classic ""Red Pony"" tales. Many of the stories were published previously. The ""Red Pony"" was written in 1933 and"
"he did it out of spite or to make a joke,' I said to myself, 'I'd kill him out of hand.'"" (193) Steinbeck grew up in the Salinas Valley region of California in Monterey County and he describes his revisit to the area after a 20-year absence in detail. Remarking on the many changes, he notes the population growth and the progress the Monterey area had made. He then visited a bar from his youth where he met his old friend Johnny Garcia and learned that a lot of regulars and childhood chums had died. He then seemed to say"
"while the city annexed the adjacent communities of Alisal and Santa Rita during this time. The Harden Ranch, Creekbridge and Williams Ranch neighborhoods constituting much of the city's North-East were built almost exclusively between 1990 and 2004. Salinas was also the birthplace of writer and Nobel Prize laureate John Steinbeck. The historic downtown, known as ""Oldtown Salinas"", features much fine Victorian architecture, and is home to the National Steinbeck Center, the Steinbeck House and the John Steinbeck Library. Major development took place in the 1990s, with the construction of Creekbridge, Williams Ranch, and Harden Ranch. Traditionally an Anglophonic European American"
"born in Portland, Maine, has used the small towns of his home state as the setting for much of his horror fiction, with several of his stories taking place in or near the fictional town of Castle Rock. Just to the south, Exeter, New Hampshire was the birthplace of best-selling novelist John Irving and Dan Brown, author of ""The Da Vinci Code"". Rick Moody has set many of his works in southern New England, focusing on wealthy families of suburban Connecticut's Gold Coast and their battles with addiction and anomie. Derek Walcott, a playwright and poet who won the 1992"
"published in ""Reader's Digest"". The Long Valley The Long Valley is a collection of short stories written by the American author John Steinbeck. The collection was first published in 1938. It comprises 12 short stories. The short stories were written over several years and are set in Steinbeck's birthplace, the Salinas Valley in California. They include the prize-winning tale ""The Murder""; ""The Chrysanthemums""; the representation of lynch mob violence in ""The Vigilante"", inspired by the lynching of the confessed murderers of Brooke Hart; and the classic ""Red Pony"" tales. Many of the stories were published previously. The ""Red Pony"" was"
"John Steinbacher John Steinbacher was an author and investigative reporter. He is the author of the controversial book, ""The Child Seducers"" which was an attack on the current state of education in America during the 1960s. He was born to Joseph Steinbacher and Catherine Matyok in Foley, Alabama on October 18, 1925. He was educated at the Pacific University in Oregon. His book, ""The Child Seducers"" was a best seller. Steinbacher had been a teacher in his time. For a decade he taught at Californian public schools until 1967. Then from 19967 to 1969, he had been a social worker"
"and went on to study English Literature at Stanford University near Palo Alto, leaving without a degree in 1925. He traveled to New York City where he took odd jobs while trying to write. When he failed to publish his work, he returned to California and worked in 1928 as a tour guide and caretaker at Lake Tahoe, where he met Carol Henning, his first wife. They married in January 1930 in Los Angeles, where, with friends, he attempted to make money by manufacturing plaster mannequins. When their money ran out six months later due to a slow market, Steinbeck"
"I, though some chapters are set in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and the story goes as far back as the American Civil War. In the beginning of ""East of Eden"", before introducing his characters, Steinbeck carefully establishes the setting with a description of the Salinas Valley in Central California. Then he outlines the story of the warmhearted inventor and farmer Samuel Hamilton and his wife Liza, immigrants from Ireland. He describes how they raise their nine children on a rough, infertile piece of land. As the Hamilton children begin to grow up and leave the nest, a wealthy stranger, Adam Trask,"
"to the young writer and naturalist Jack Rudloe, who was trying to establish his own biological supply company, now Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory in Florida. Their correspondence continued until Steinbeck's death. In 1966, Steinbeck traveled to Tel Aviv to visit the site of Mount Hope, a farm community established in Israel by his grandfather, whose brother, Friedrich Großsteinbeck, was murdered by Arab marauders in 1858 in what became known as the Outrages at Jaffa. John Steinbeck died in New York City on December 20, 1968, of heart disease and congestive heart failure. He was 66, and had been a lifelong"
"John Christian Hopkins John Christian Hopkins (born 1960) is a Narragansett journalist, author, poet and public speaker who resides in Tuba City, Arizona, United States. After having grown up in Hope Valley, Rhode Island, Hopkins graduated from the University of Rhode Island with degrees in journalism and history in 1987. Hopkins is a career journalist who has worked at newspapers across New England, in New York, Florida, most recently in Arizona. He was a former nationally syndicated newspaper columnist for Gannett News Service. As a child Hopkins slept clutching books to his chest and dreamed of becoming an author. “I’ve"
"Stanley Hornbeck Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck (May 4, 1883 – December 10, 1966) was an American professor and diplomat. A Rhodes scholar and the author of eight books, he had a distinguished thirty-year career in government service. He was chief of the State Department Division of Far Eastern Affairs (1928–1937), a special adviser to Secretary of State Cordell Hull (1937–1944), and ambassador to the Netherlands (1944–1947). Hornbeck was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, the son of a Methodist minister, and studied at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver. He also attended Oxford as the first Rhodes Scholar from Colorado"
"Samuel Hamilton, Steinbeck's maternal grandfather. A young John Steinbeck also appears briefly in the novel as a minor character. According to his third and last wife, Elaine, Steinbeck considered it his ""magnum opus"". Steinbeck stated about ""East of Eden"": ""It has everything in it I have been able to learn about my craft or profession in all these years."" He further claimed: ""I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this."" The story is primarily set in the Salinas Valley, California, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War"
"until his death in Allentown in 1848. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business during the Thirtieth Congress. Interment in Allentown Cemetery. John Westbrook Hornbeck John Westbrook Hornbeck (January 24, 1804 – January 16, 1848) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Westbrook Hornbeck was born in Montague Township, New Jersey. He graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1827. He studied law, was admitted to the bar of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in 1829 and commenced practice in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1830. He was commissioned"
"His twelve books for the Lives to Remember Series included biographies of Herbert Hoover, James Madison, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, Douglas MacArthur, the Kennedy brothers, Admiral Richard Byrd and Daniel Webster. His magazine articles told about not only the Washington political landscape but nearly every aspect of the American experience. Steinberg was born in 1917 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He entered the University of Minnesota at 16 and graduated with both undergraduate and master's degrees in Political Science and Economics. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1940 with his wife also a University of Minnesota graduate (Economics) to work for"
"Steinman built bridges in the United States, Thailand, England, Portugal, Italy, Brazil, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Canada, Korea, Iraq and Pakistan. He had a literary bent, and was a published author with several books, articles in advancement of his craft, and even had children's books and poetry to his credit. Steinman was the child of Jewish immigrants. Little is known of his family and early childhood other than that he had 6 siblings. There is some controversy about where and when he was born. Some sources have him born in Chomsk (Хомск חומסק) , Brest, Belarus in 1886, and emigrating to"
"Hank Steinberg Hank Steinberg is an American television and film writer, producer and director. Hank Steinberg was born on November 19, 1969, in Manhasset, New York, and raised in Great Neck, New York. He graduated from Great Neck North High School in 1987 and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in English. At Penn, he was a sportswriter for the Daily Pennsylvanian before he made the jump to screenwriting. In 1997, Steinberg pitched the idea for ""61*"" to HBO, a biopic about the legendary home-run race between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle of the '61 Yankees. A lifetime"
"of German, English, and Irish descent. Johann Adolf Großsteinbeck (1828–1913), Steinbeck's paternal grandfather, shortened the family name to Steinbeck when he immigrated to the United States. The family farm in Heiligenhaus, Mettmann, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is still named ""Großsteinbeck."" His father, John Ernst Steinbeck (1862–1935), served as Monterey County treasurer. John's mother, Olive Hamilton (1867–1934), a former school teacher, shared Steinbeck's passion for reading and writing. The Steinbecks were members of the Episcopal Church, although Steinbeck later became agnostic. Steinbeck lived in a small rural town, no more than a frontier settlement, set in some of the world's most fertile"
"Travels with Charley Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck. It depicts a 1960 road trip around the United States made by Steinbeck, in the company of his standard poodle, Charley. Steinbeck wrote that he was moved by a desire to see his country on a personal level, since he made his living writing about it. He wrote of having many questions going into his journey, the main one being, ""What are Americans like today?"" However, he found that he had concerns about much of the ""new America"" he witnessed. Steinbeck"
"known as Steinbach Hall. John Pitkin Norton John Pitkin Norton (July 19, 1822 – September 5, 1852) was an educator, agricultural chemist, and author. Norton was born in Albany, New York in 1822, where his father John Treadwell Norton, a successful farmer and engineer, owned a hardware store. His mother, Mary Hubbard Pitkin, married his father in 1821 and died in 1829. He and his father returned to Farmington, Connecticut to live on land his father inherited from his grandfather John Treadwell, former governor of Connecticut. Norton studied chemistry under Benjamin Silliman at Yale College, and was eventually appointed professor"
"for long enough to establish one, less they starve. Most needed of these resources—yet most inaccessible—are hospitals. Steinbeck follows a former Oklahoma ranching family’s medical struggles, illustrating the unavailability of medical care and other welfare services for migrant workers. The family consists of a fifty-year-old father, a forty-five-year-old mother, two sons, fifteen and twelve, and a six-year-old daughter traveling to California in their truck, starting off picking oranges. When their truck breaks down, fixing it consumes a third of their initial earnings. This leaves little money to pay for medical problems—the father’s sprained ankle and the daughter’s measles. With the"
"some of his writings in a little house on the edge of his property in Sag Harbor. His view from the writing house overlooked the Upper Sag Harbor Cove. In his travelogue ""Travels with Charley"", Steinbeck starts an 11-week trip from Sag Harbor with his dog, Charley. The Sag Harbor-North Haven Bridge, renamed The LCpl Jordan Haerter Veterans' Memorial Bridge in November 2008, is notable as the site of Pop artist Ray Johnson's presumed suicide in 1995 as well as two abortive suicide attempts by monologist Spalding Gray, in September 2002 and October 2003. Sag Harbor is the birthplace of"
"him to observe keenly, draw, and write what he experienced.[3] John Brandi's many books, published in the U.S. and India, include poetry, travel vignettes, essays, modern American haiku and haibun. A complete selection of his publications may be found at UC Berkeley Special Collections, Brown University Library, University at Buffalo Special Collections, and at the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, Santa Fe, NM. John Brandi John Brandi (born , Los Angeles, California) is an American poet and artist. San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman has said of Brandi: He has been an open roader for much of his life and"