The newsboy union leader that amassed a historically large literary collection while sitting on his own spotty story.

Hi, I’m Shaun Dunn from Lincoln, Nebraska here for HPPR’s Radio Readers Book Club. John Steinbeck is one of my favorite ...

While he is now remembered around the world on Burns Night, Robert Burns spent most of his life as a farmer despite writing 700 poems while he was alive.

John Steinbeck’s new novel, “Cannery Row” (Viking), is one of the least pretentious of his books, but I believe that it is the one I have most enjoyed reading. It deals with a community a little like ...

AN KHE, Vietnam — Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck sat on a little old green box and spoke out with a manner that seemed as though his chin were tied to his chest. When he spoke, his whole ...

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” So began the author of St John’s Gospel, in a classic Christian definition of God the father’s eternal coexistence with ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Although he was a great contributor ...

Steinbeck’s novel opens with Joad getting out of prison, after which he meets with his family as they’re making the long journey to California. Unlike other characters in the novel, Joad seems to ...

SALINAS – After a month of renovations, the John Steinbeck Library in Salinas reopened on Monday. The building, originally called the Lincoln Avenue Library, was built in 1959. Ten years later, it was ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. If there’s a scene that best encapsulates the tragically abbreviated career of John Candy, it’s not necessarily ...

TORONTO — A new biography of Canadian comedy legend John Candy delves into the private battles he faced away from the cameras. According to close friend and fellow "SCTV" alum Dave Thomas, those ...