The coastal city of Monterey, California, caters to a wide variety of travelers, from hikers, bikers and kayakers to families ...

News about John Steinbeck, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Steinbeck’s famous Western Flyer sails back to Monterey after years of restoration Neglected, twice sunk and now painstakingly restored, the Western Flyer — dubbed the world’s most famous ...

Drivers in Nevada found guilty of their second DUI within seven years will have to serve 20 days in jail following Republican ...

John Steinbeck, the great American writer of “Of Mice and Men” and “East of Eden,” lived in this Upper East Side home from 1963 until his death in 1968 at age 66. A plaque outside the ...

In the early 1960s, when John Steinbeck agreed to serve as honorary chairman of the Old Whaler’s Festival in Sag Harbor, village folklore holds that the renowned author had one stipulation: No ...

The road was not just a path but a symbol of hope and resilience. In John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," Route 66 is described as the "Mother Road," emphasizing its role in providing a lifeline to ...

John Steinbeck’s Western Flyer boat transformed into floating classroom on Monterey Bay Aboard the same fishing vessel Steinbeck used for his 1940 Sea of Cortez expedition, undergraduates ...