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Photo Inspires Sumi Ink Portrait by Eugene Gregan
Undated Sumi ink portrait of John Steinbeck by Eugene Gregan A photograph Thom Steinbeck admired of his father inspired the expressive, high-energy Sumi ink brush painting of John Steinbeck seen here....
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For John Steinbeck, the Rains in Pajaro Hit Home
The word pajaro means bird in Spanish, and Central California’s Pajaro Valley may have inspired the setting of John Steinbeck’s 1936 American strike novel, In Dubious Battle. But the town of Pajaro,...
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San Jose State Hosts Steinbeck Conference
Reading, teaching, and translating Steinbeck, the subject of San Jose State University’s first Steinbeck conference since 2019, attracted a reported 30 attendees to the downtown San Jose, California...
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John Steinbeck Haunts Malcolm Harris’s Palo Alto
John Steinbeck shadows the world of Palo Alto like a superannuated ghost. The subtitle of Malcolm Harris’s new nonfiction bestseller—A History of California, Capitalism, and the World—offers the first...
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Celebrating Woody Guthrie’s Grapes of Wrath Connection
“Woody is Just Woody,” an exhibition expressing the inspired connection between the author of The Grapes of Wrath and the folk singer Woody Guthrie, is on display through August 25, 2023, in the fifth...
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Saved! John Steinbeck’s Retreat in Sag Harbor
Thanks to local support and international interest, the waterfront property in Sag Harbor, New York, from which John Steinbeck set forth in Travels with Charley joins three properties in California...
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A Chance Christmas Dinner with John Steinbeck in 1947
A chance Christmas dinner with John Steinbeck helped set the course of a young man’s life as an adventurer and Pan American pilot who crisscrossed the world many times–and then wrote a book about it....
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Henry Fonda’s Daughter, Jane Fonda, to Receive 2023 John Steinbeck Award
Jane Fonda, the actress-activist daughter of John Steinbeck’s friend, the actor Henry Fonda, will receive the 2023 John Steinbeck “In the Souls of the People” Award on September 13 at San Francisco’s...
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Celebrate! Western Flyer Returns to Monterey Bay
Western Flyer—the 77-foot fishing boat John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts took on their famous 1940 trip to the Sea of Cortez—recently returned to Monterey Bay after nearly a decade of restoration in Port...
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New Video from San Jose State University on John Steinbeck: A Writer’s Vision
San Jose State University’s Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies continues four decades of distinguished service to scholars, teachers, and students with John Steinbeck: A Writer’s Vision....
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