The hometown of John Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize-winning author, is set to lose its public library system due to a financial crisis. The closures may leave Salinas mindful of one of Steinbeck’s ...

The John Steinbeck Library will be closed on October 21 so air conditioning units can be installed.The work is part of the City of Salinas Energy and Utility Cost Savings Project.On the 21st ...

SALINAS — This is a story of John and of John’s town and of John’s book. It is a story of how these three became one thing. John Steinbeck published “The Grapes of Wrath” 75 years ago ...

Salinas is adding security patrols to Sherwood Park and on-call social workers to the Steinbeck Library to address safety concerns related to some of the homeless, officials say.

SALINAS, Calif. — Outside the John Steinbeck Library here, a life-size statue of the hometown legend and Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” sports ...

But to Mary Hamilton, of Black Swan Design, the phrases make perfect sense. She's been teaching a come-one, come-all drop-in knitting class at Salinas' John Steinbeck Library for close to five ...

John Steinbeck kept his California roots close when writing such masterpieces as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "East of Eden," but the Nobel Prize winner also loved New York and made it his home for ...

Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962 By John Steinbeck; Edited by Robert DeMott and Brian Railsback Library of America, 990 pages, $40 Originally Published: February 15, 2007 at 2:29 ...