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

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 ...

In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains ...

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.

Novelist John Steinbeck, left, and marine biologist Ed Ricketts co-authored a beloved book after their 1940 adventure aboard the Western Flyer, a fishing boat now being restored.

In John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” the Joad family doesn’t just migrate west. They drive there. And in certain parts, their car isn’t an extra.

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 ...

Transportation Secretary invites Americans to explore the country through the great American road trip, featuring 250 destinations for the nation's 250th anniversary.

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 ...