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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...

EIGHTEEN months ago, PBS and its Los Angeles affiliate KCET sent me and director Martin Burns on a year-long examination of the beliefs and stories of eight religious leaders. The series and a companion book that resulted were titled Searching For God In...

Byline: Thomas Walter, THE WASHINGTON TIMES COMING TO AMERICA Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has announced its first two U.S. hotel openings - Miami and Chicago. The Shangri-La Hotel, Miami, will be the first to open sometime in 2008. Situated in the...

John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley (1962), recounting his trip across the United States with his dog in a custom-made camper, was enormously popular. The book's many readers liked his anecdotal sentimentality. The dog with the crossed front teeth and bourgeois name made poodlehood forgivable, and the author avoided profound criticism of the country, lacing his account with vivid descriptions of the landscape and a variety of American characters. Travels is a collage that millions of America...

Shortly after Labor Day, 1960, Steinbeck left his Long Island home for a swing around the United States. Three months and 10,000 miles later the 58-year-old novelist was back, physically and emotionally exhausted. But it was all decidedly worth the effort. The resulting book ["Travels with Charley"] is pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant Sequoias arouse ...