Steinbeck's Redemption

THE OLD ORANGE TREE by Philip Robinson 'Young Samuel Hamilton came from the north of Ireland and so did his wife. He was he s...

In the beginning, Steinbeck used 'The Salinas Valley' as the working title of East of Eden when he began to write it (simply 'S...

When John Steinbeck was writing his first novel, East of Eden , he kept a notebook of letters to his editor. From these it seems that well i...