In 1940 film director John Ford would use Sayre ’ s Beckham County Courthouse in the film The Grapes of Wrath, based on the famous book by writer John Steinbeck.

He commented that " You would never know that In Dubious Battle was by the same John Steinbeck if the publishers did not tell you so.

Antique shops that bordered a lot of the roads up North, sold old " junk " that Steinbeck would have bought if he thought he had room for it, noting that he had more junk at home than most stores.

Steinbeck then realized what it would be like to travel without his companion.

I would say hooray for Steinbeck.

At a conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of Steinbeck's birth, Stephen K. George declared: " With these authors Weeks, and Gannett I would contend that, given its multi-layered complexity, intriguing artistry, and clear moral purpose, The Winter of Our Discontent ranks in the upper echelon of Steinbeck ’ s fiction, alongside Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden, and, of course, The Grapes of Wrath.

John Steinbeck would become a silent 50 % partner in the lab, after funding its reconstruction costs.

Author John Steinbeck later wrote The Grapes of Wrath, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Of Mice and Men, about such people.

In this brief presentation it is not possible to dwell at any length on individual works which Steinbeck later produced.

Steinbeck was later inspired by Stevenson in choosing to title his account of his cross-country voyage with a gray-haired poodle in the 1960s, Travels With Charley: In Search of America.

He is best known for Between Pacific Tides ( 1939 ), a pioneering study of intertidal ecology, and for his influence on writer John Steinbeck, which resulted in their collaboration on the Sea of Cortez, later republished as The Log from the Sea of Cortez ( 1951 ).

The St. Petersburg Times noted that “ News reports said that Barack Obama bought two classics from young readers, Harper Lee ’ s To Kill A Mockingbird and John Steinbeck ’ s The Red Pony .” In an interview with Eric Clapton, Billboard complimented the novel by stating that “ The Red Pony, John Steinbeck, a wrenching story of adolescent initiation into the world of death, birth, and disappointment .” However, Eric Clapton later complained that “ he just made me want to commit suicide.

Atlantic Monthly ( Edward Weeks ) immediately reviewed The Winter of Our Discontent as a Steinbeck classic: " His dialogue is full of life, the entrapment of Ethan is ingenious, and the morality in this novel marks Mr. Steinbeck's return to the mood and the concern with which he wrote The Grapes of Wrath.

With treatment in hand, Hitchcock shopped for a screenwriter ; he wanted a " name " writer to lend some prestige to the screenplay, but was turned down by eight writers, including John Steinbeck and Thornton Wilder, all of whom thought the story too tawdry and were put off by Highsmith's first-timer status.

Steinbeck next traveled to Niagara Falls and some Midwestern cities.

After the incident, Steinbeck no longer desired to visit some of his favorite places, like Galatoire's Restaurant, fearing more racially divided ideals.

With Elaine he stayed at some of the country's top hotels, motels, and resorts, not to mention two weeks at the Steinbeck family cottage in Pacific Grove, California, and a week at a Texas cattle ranch for millionaires.

" In regards to the supposed conversations, she said " Whether or not Steinbeck met that actor where he says he did, he could have met such a figure at some point in his life.

* March 11 – Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck and six others leave Monterey, California for The Sea of Cortez on a collecting expedition.

For a number of years, John Steinbeck lived in a cottage in Pacific Grove owned by his father, Ernest, who was Monterey County Treasurer.

In 1949, she formed Monterey Pictures with John Steinbeck.

* Tortilla Flat ( 1935 ) by John Steinbeck: A retelling of the Arthurian legends, set in Monterey, CA during the interwar period.

Tortilla Flat ( 1935 ) is an early John Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California.

Looking backwards, in Tortilla Flat, Steinbeck shows the individuals ( the knights ) become Danny's house ( the round table ) and that Danny's house is part of Tortilla Flat and that Tortilla Flat is part of greater Monterey and Monterey part of the greater world.

The Pastures of Heaven is a short story cycle by John Steinbeck, first published in 1932, consisting of twelve interconnected stories about a valley in Monterey, California, which was discovered by a Spanish corporal while chasing runaway Indian slaves.

But Steinbeck discovered that many readers didn't accept the paisanos with the generosity of vision that he did.

" In his foreword to the 1937 Modern Library edition Steinbeck evoked the ecological principle that an organism will adapt to its environment: the paisanos are, he writes, " people who merge successfully with their habitat.

Spreckels is associated with the writer John Steinbeck, who lived and worked there for a time, and used it as a setting in Tortilla Flat.

Her many films include Boom Town ( 1940 ) with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, Comrade X with Gable, White Cargo ( 1942 ), and Tortilla Flat ( 1942 ) with Tracy and John Garfield, based on the novel by John Steinbeck.

* John Steinbeck – Tortilla Flat

* Pablo, a character from the John Steinbeck novel Tortilla Flat

Steinbeck often used myths and themes or biblical stories in his novels: Cup of Gold is a retelling of the myth of Henry Morgan the pirate ; Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row employ the King Arthur fables.

Steinbeck critic Joseph Fontenrose has shown how closely Tortilla Flat parallels the Arthurian saga, uncovering the following parallels:

In Tortilla Flat Steinbeck also expressed his philosophy of group-man.

* Tortilla Flat, a 1935 John Steinbeck novel

Tortilla Flat is a 1942 film with Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff, and Sheldon Leonard based on the novel by John Steinbeck.

The illustrations within the book are black and white done with a grease crayon on a grained paper, done by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, who also illustrated other children's books such as My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Paco Goes to the Fair, Miss Hickory, Hipo the Hippo, and adult books such as Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck and Cream Hill by Lewis Stiles Gannett, the author's father and husband of the book's illustrator.

* Tortilla Flat, a 1935 Steinbeck novel.

* Fauna, a female character in Sweet Thursday, a novel by John Steinbeck.

* 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.

In 1981, she appeared in the television film East of Eden, based on the novel by John Steinbeck.

Sweet Thursday is a novel by John Steinbeck ( the sequel to his novel Cannery Row ).

In the 1945 John Steinbeck novel Sweet Thursday, the titular day is preceded by " Lousy Wednesday ".

* the protagonist in the novel The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck

The street name, formerly a nickname for Ocean View Avenue, became official in January 1958 to honor John Steinbeck and his well-known novel Cannery Row.

Weedpatch is the location of the Arvin Federal Government Camp, known colloquially ( and in the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath ) as " Weedpatch Camp.

* Dorris Bowdon, a Coldwater native, was a screen actress who appeared in several motion pictures in the 1930s and 1940s and is best known for her role as Rosasharn in the film adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel " The Grapes of Wrath ", starring Henry Fonda.

* The Joad family from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck were sharecroppers from Sallisaw.

Based on the novel by John Steinbeck.

In his film career, he played the grandfather in The Red Pony ( 1949 ), adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum, and the spy boss of Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic Notorious ( 1946 ).

* Of Mice and Men, the novel by John Steinbeck, is removed from Tennessee public schools when the School Board Chair promises to remove all " filthy books " from public school curricula and libraries.

** Pipe Dream – Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Richard Rodgers, based on the novel Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck.

* Cup of Gold ( novel ), 1929 novel by John Steinbeck

East of Eden is a 1955 film, directed by Elia Kazan, and loosely based on the second half of the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck.

* The Pearl ( novel ), by John Steinbeck

* La perla ( film ) ( The Pearl ), a 1947 film adaptation of the Steinbeck novel

To a God Unknown is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1933.

In this short novel, Steinbeck explores the relationship of man to his land.