Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw recently lectured about “ Travels with Charley at 60” at The Church on Madison Street.

A plaque above the door of the neighboring Windmill on Long Wharf thanks him for his role in establishing the Old Whalers Festival in 1963, and for being its Honorary Chairman from 1963 to 1968.ĭuring this year’s Sag Harbor Harborfest Weekend, Canio’s Books, the premier bookstore of Sag Harbor, celebrated the 60th birthday of Travels with Charley with dramatic readings of portions on their lawn, as part of their “Canio’s Cultural Café” Series. In 2019 the park at the Sag Harbor waterfront was dedicated to him and officially named “John Steinbeck Waterfront Park”.

Whenever possible Sag Harbor Village honors his lifelong relationship and presence there. was born in Salinas, California on February 27th, 1902, Sag Harbor, New York, was the home of his heart and talent most of his life. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean, and read by thousands as the book that brought Oprah's Book Club back, East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century.John And Elaine Steinbeck’s Longtime Sag Harbor Home, “The Point” Is On The Market All Photos courtesy of Richard LewinĪnyone who has written a book report for a traditional English class in High School or Junior High is more than familiar with the titles Travels with Charley, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row and more works by Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author John Steinbeck. The masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families-the Trasks and the Hamiltons-whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden 'the first book,' and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth.

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