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 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.

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’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 ...

When John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1939 classic “The Grapes of Wrath,” the renowned American writer donated his $1,000 in prize money to an aspiring novelist.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...