Extracts from Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, © 1945 by John Steinbeck. Renewed © 1973 by Elaine Steinbeck, John Steinbeck IV and Thom Steinbeck. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.
Extracts from East of Eden by John Steinbeck, © 1952 by John Steinbeck, renewed © 1980 by Elaine Steinbeck, John Steinbeck IV and Thom Steinbeck. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.
Extracts from Journal of a Novel by John Steinbeck, © 1969 by the Executors of the Estate of John Steinbeck. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.
Extracts from Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck, © 1954 by John Steinbeck. Copyright renewed © 1982 by Elaine Steinbeck, Thom Steinbeck and John Steinbeck IV. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.
Extracts from To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck, © 1933, renewed © 1961 by John Steinbeck. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.
Extracts from America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction by John Steinbeck, edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Jackson Benson, © 2002 by Elaine Steinbeck and Thomas Steinbeck. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Thanks are extended to the following libraries for providing access to and quotations from Steinbeck archives: Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries; Harold A. Miller Library, Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University; the Annie Laurie Williams Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University; Pierpont Morgan Library; National Steinbeck Center, Salinas; Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University; Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Nancy Burnett (left) and Susan Shillinglaw (right) in Rocinante, Steinbeck’s truck for his Travels with Charley trip.
About the Author
Susan Shillinglaw is the Scholar in Residence at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California, and Professor of English at San Jose State University, where she was also Director of the Center for Steinbeck Studies for many years. She was a consultant to Harpo Productions for Oprah’s website on East of Eden, and has consulted for popular media such as Good Morning America, the Discovery Channel, and A&E. She is the coauthor of Steinbeck’s How to Organize a Steinbeck Book or Film Discussion Group and a coeditor of America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction, Beyond Boundaries: Rereading John Steinbeck, and Steinbeck and the Environment. She lives in Los Gatos and Pacific Grove, California—Steinbeck’s towns.
About the Photographer
Nancy Burnett has been photographing the California landscape for more than thirty years. She is the producer of The Shape of Life and Strange Days on Planet Earth for PBS, coproducer of the photographic exhibit Sea Stars for the Smithsonian, and coauthor of The Shape of Life. She lives in the Carmel Valley in California.
About the ArtPlace Series
This book is part of the ArtPlace series published by Roaring Forties Press. Each book in the series explores how a renowned artist and a world-famous city or area helped to define and inspire each other. ArtPlace volumes are intended to stimulate both eye and mind, offering a rich mix of art and photography, history and biography, ideas and information. While the books can be used by tourists to navigate and illuminate their way through cityscapes and landscapes, the volumes can also be read by armchair travelers in search of an engrossing and revealing story.
Other titles include A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York, A Journey into the Transcendentalists’ New England, A Journey into Matisse’s South of France, A Journey into Flaubert’s Normandy, and A Journey into Ireland’s Literary Revival.
Visit Roaring Forties Press’s website, www.roaringfortiespress.com, for details of these and other forthcoming titles, as well as to learn about upcoming author tours, readings, media appearances, and all kinds of special events and offers. Visitors to the website may also send comments and questions to the authors of the ArtPlace series books.
A Journey into Steinbeck’s California
This book is set in Goudy and Futura; the display type is Futura Condensed. The cover and the interior were designed by Jeff Urbancic; Susan Lynch made up the pages. Kim Rusch designed the maps. Ellen Cavalli copyedited the text, which was proofread by Kimberley McCutcheon and Karen Mead and indexed by Sonsie Conroy.
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