The Western Flyer completed a 4,700-mile journey, retracing a historic route with students and scientists aboard, bringing ...

The name “Western Flyer” was the name of a boat that author John Steinbeck chartered in 1940 to get out of town after “The ...

Steinbeck mined her research for “The Grapes of Wrath.” Then her own Dust Bowl novel was squashed Migrant camp worker Sanora Babb wrote what could have been the era's definitive book.

I t is likely, but by no means certain, that in May 1938, the writers John Steinbeck and Sanora Babb met in a café near Arvin ...

The voyage covered 4,700 miles and made 22 stops throughout the Gulf of California, doing outreach in 16 coastal communities.

Thomas Steinbeck, Novelist and Son of John Steinbeck, Dies at 72 Mr. Steinbeck, the author of a short-story collection and two novels, drew attention for a legal battle for rights to his father ...

The Western Flyer, a fishing vessel made famous by John Steinbeck's book "The Sea of Cortez," is returning to the Gulf of California after 85 years.

Thomas Steinbeck, Novelist and Son of John Steinbeck, Dies at 72 Mr. Steinbeck, the author of a short-story collection and two novels, drew attention for a legal battle for rights to his father ...