Expected to bring $200,000 to $250,000, the trove includes Steinbeck's acceptance speech for his 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature and manuscripts written in his neat script, on topics as diverse as ...

Steinbeck’s famed novels Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Grapes of Wrath (1939) earned him even more acclaim, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.