John Steinbeck Audio & Video

Steinbeck tells of two ranch hands who drift from job to job, always one stepahead of the law and a few dollars from the poorhouse.

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families....

A Mexican pearl-fisher finds a pearl of great value--far more than what he needs to pay the doctor to save his child's life. But the pearl brings only evil and tragedy.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.

Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a Camelot on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights....

Here is Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival....

The Forgotten Village is a 1941 American documentary film - some sources call it an ethnofiction film - directed by Herbert Kline and Alexander Hammid.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat....

A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California's Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath.

Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his way, he said, of "getting my mental arm in shape to pitch a good game".