John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968), American author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, was a leading exponent of the proletarian novel and a prominent spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression. John Steinbeck was born on Feb. 27, 1902, in Salin...

Through a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing social forces or who struggle against their own inhumane tendencies and...

Throughout a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing social forces or who struggle against their own inhumane tendencies...

A host of new flights will make travel to Europe more convenient for Americans this summer.According to a report on new air service from the European Travel Commission, Boston and Washington will get new nonstop flights to Madrid in June via Iberia Airlines. Boston will...

JetBlue canceled 68 flights because of snow Monday, testing the airline's pledge to compensate customers for more than 1,000 canceled flights during the Valentine's Day storm two week earlier.However, the embattled carrier wasn't alone this time as other carriers also grounded flights in and out...

JetBlue canceled 215 flights Friday because of a winter storm on the East Coast, aiming to avoid the days of cancellations and criticism that followed a storm last month, an airline spokesman said.The cancellations affected about one-third of all JetBlue flights. More than 200 of...

The nation's air travelers in 2006 faced more late arrivals and more lost luggage than the year before _ yet they complained less often, federal statistics show.The Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a division of the Transportation Department, released data that showed 75 percent of flights...