John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

HAS BEEN CALLED THE CONSCIENCE OF AMERICA. He wrote more than thirty books, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 and the United States Medal of Freedom in 1964. This website honors Steinbeck as a novelist, journalist, scientist, ecologist, historian, and social commentator.

THE STEINBECK INSTITUTE

Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Steinbeck Institute—held in 2007 and again this year in summer 2009—will bring participants to the spectacular Monterey Peninsula—two hours south of San Francisco. Once dubbed “the circle of enchantment,” the Peninsula is home to three lovely towns—Monterey, Pacific Grove, and Carmel—and miles of rocky shore, beaches and forests.