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 ...

John Steinbeck is now most famous as author of The Grapes of Wrath (1938), a novel about agricultural workers displaced from ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

As the United States celebrates 250 years of storytelling, Monterey County offers a living map of one of America’s most ...

Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed “The Grapes of Wrath.” The book’s success led to the cancellation of her own book contract. “Riding Like the Wind” tells her life story. By Robert ...

BOSTON (AP) - A tender and touching letter that author John Steinbeck penned to his teenage son, offering fatherly advice after the young man confided that he was in love for the first time, is going ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. court was wrong to award rights to some of John Steinbeck's best-known novels, including "The Grapes of Wrath," to his son and granddaughter, a federal appeals court ruled ...