John Steinbeck’s Sag Harbor home on Long Island may soon secure its place in literary history, thanks to an impassioned coalition of readers, writers, and booksellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Viking Press took out a two-page ad in 'PW' in 1939 to keep sales rolling for John Steinbeck’s 'The Grapes of Wrath'. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
‘The Snake’ is a short story by the American author John Steinbeck (1902-68), published in The Monterey Beacon in 1935 before being included in Steinbeck’s collection The Long Valley in 1938. The story tells of a young scientist who is at work experimenting with animals in his laboratory when he […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2022-05-26 14:00:50 UTC ]
“Mad at the World” captures Steinbeck in the kind of nuanced and unshowy prose that suits its subject. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-10-01 12:33:21 UTC ]
John Steinbeck, who won both a Pulitzer Prize (in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, died 51 years ago, and yet he is still making news. Last month, the Los Angeles Times reported that legal squabbling over his literary estate had finally come to an end... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-21 08:49:16 UTC ]
Long before funny cat content flooded every single corner of the internet, John Steinbeck, legendary dog person, was writing it for Le Figaro, proving once again that France gets all the good stuff before we do. Steinbeck wrote “The Amiable Fleas,” or “Les puces sympathiques,” in 1954 for Le... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-31 15:44:48 UTC ]