The Western Flyer is famous for being the fishing boat that John Steinbeck and his biologist friend Ed Ricketts used on an ecological adventure in 1940 in Moss Landing, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 2 ...

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

John Steinbeck entered the literary stratosphere by way of his native Central California, through stories that lionized the downtrodden and often unseen. “The Grapes of Wrath,” his account of ...

John Steinbeck’s longtime home in Sag Harbor, N.Y., a cozy cottage on a quiet cove where he spent his summers writing and fishing, is on the market for the first time in more than six decades ...

A little-known short story by John Steinbeck has been published for the first time in English today, 65 years after it first emerged in a French daily in Paris. “The Amiable Fleas” was ...

John Steinbeck’s fiction is often held up as an exemplar of politically engaged art, but William Souder’s concise new biography, “Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck,” argues ...

John Steinbeck’s Family Tree Dominates Day One of Heirs’ Trial. Neither side is a blood relative, and both sides were at pains to point that out to the jury.

The collection includes an array of items saved from John and his wife Elaine’s New York home, including locks of Steinbeck’s baby hair, love letters, family photos, first edition books and a ...

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 ...

Family heirs of the iconic American author John Steinbeck put the late writer’s former part-time pad on the market for $16.75 million in 2021 — and preservationists quickly saw the listing as ...

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 ...

John Steinbeck died in 1968, and Thomas Steinbeck died in 2016. The text of the letter has been published for worldwide audiences, including in 1989's "Steinbeck: A Life in Letters," by Penguin Books.