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John Steinbeck
Explore John Steinbeck's home state of California, and his second home state: New York, and learn about his legacy in the classroom.
John Steinbeck's California Connections
Author: John Steinbeck
"I think I would like to write the story of this whole valley, of all the little towns and all the farms and the ranches in the wilder hills. I can see how I would like to do it so that it would be the valley of the world. Steinbeck's letter to George Albee, Salinas, 1933
Posted on Tue, Oct 01, 2002
Teaching John Steinbeck
Author: John Steinbeck
The novels of John Steinbeck inhabit many bookshelves in classrooms across the United States. High school English classes spend weeks exploring the details of Steinbeck's novels; the complex relationships, the labyrinthine conflicts, and the characters and their ghosts, amid his strong, yet luxuriant language.
Posted on Tue, Oct 01, 2002
John Steinbeck's New York
A Home in Sag Harbor
Author: John Steinbeck
Though Steinbeck is generally known as a California writer, he lived nearly half his life in New York - keeping homes in New York City, and later in Sag Harbor, Long Island. In June of 1925 Steinbeck left Stanford University without taking a degree. He questioned where he might go next: China, Mexico, Chicago, San Francisco?
Posted on Mon, Apr 01, 2002
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