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And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Before Nobel Laureate John Steinbeck became an essential part of the Western literary canon, he was an unpublished writer with three rejected novels to his name. (Relatable!) Apparently, one of the…

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.

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JOHN STEINBECK

Penguin Classic covers for all of John Steinbeck's books.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

National Steinbeck Center on Instagram: “#flashbackfriday John Steinbeck isn’t necessarily as well known for his time spent in New York as he is for his attachment to Salinas and…”

The author drew inspiration from idiosyncratic items like a dead hummingbird wrapped in colorful string and entombed in a tiny coffin.

Charles le Chien || When he was twenty-five, working as a caretaker at a Lake Tahoe lodge during a snowy winter and trying to become a novelist, John Steinbeck confided in a letter to a young woman that he was quite worried because his only companion, an Airedale, had learned to swear. Where the dog had learned such a thing, Steinbeck couldn’t imagine. Nearly a decade later, traveling in Mexico, he wrote a letter to a friend about how wonderful https://thebark.com/content/charles-le-chien

This is an interesting John Steinbeck quote, and one that had me thinking for awhile.

John Steinbeck East Of Eden. Gwyn Conger, Steinbeck's second wife and model for Cathy Trask 'a psychic monster' with 'a malformed soul'

In 1938 John Steinbeck wrote an article for Stage about Of Mice and Men as a Play-Novelette, which was something of an experiment, and, as Steinbeck writes, it was : “…an attempt to write a novel t…