The story concerns the Trask family, including the father, Adam, his disgraced wife, Cathy, and the pair’s twin sons, Aaron ...

There’s the John Steinbeck most Californians know, the bard of the Salinas Valley and Cannery Row, the chronicler of the common man’s plight, the acclaimed author of such towering works as “The Grapes ...

During the holiday season, we’re all searching for gifts that feel personal and sincere. A book is an intimate and meaningful ...

CRITICS have had a holiday detecting exotic symbolisms in John Steinbeck’s work. Perhaps they are there. He would be the last man to affirm or to deny it. To inquirers for biographical data he has ...

Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed “The Grapes of Wrath.” The book’s success led to the cancellation of her own book contract. “Riding Like the Wind” tells her life story. By Robert ...

Quick—name the Irish-American writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Flannery O’Connor? No. Edwin O’Connor? Nope. J. F. Powers? Wrong. John O’Hara? Wrong again. All of those authors ...