SAN FRANCISCO — For 50 years, the old box of documents collected dust in Twyla Martin’s West Hollywood garage. She knew the cursive scribblings on stacks of crumbling, sepia-toned pages had something ...

(CNN) — An upcoming auction is making an intimate collection of the personal belongings of American author John Steinbeck available to the public for the first time. The collection includes an array ...

The work of John Steinbeck, California’s only native son to win a Nobel Prize for literature, continues to evoke a poetic sense of the Central Valley, Monterey Bay and small towns along the Salinas ...

For a John Steinbeck collector like Walnut Creek's Jim Dourgarian, the chance to buy books the Nobel Prize-winning novelist autographed for his sister was worth a half-hour phone call. By the end of ...

Ken Holmes fell in love with John Steinbeck’s writing during his daily commute on the train from New Jersey to his office in New York City. “Anyone who’s read much of Steinbeck knows it’s an easy read ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Dec. 13, 1962, file photo, author John Steinbeck, with his wife Elaine arrive at London Airport. Curated Estates in ...

An upcoming auction is making an intimate collection of the personal belongings of American author John Steinbeck available to the public for the first time. The collection includes an array of items ...