John Steinbeck News

Mark Mineart and Brian Hutchison appear in a scene from John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" opening tonight at the Westport Country Playhouse and running through Nov.

At 15, San Jose teenager Lewis Buzbee read John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" and, in a fit of youthful inspiration, began his own writing career later that evening.

Already at the beginning, their relationship is strained: George bemoans the burden of looking after Lennie, who has a mental disability and a troublesome penchant for stroking soft things.

IT HAPPENS that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it.

Noted Colorado Shakespeare Festival actor Sean Tarrant is joined in Colorado Springs with Josh Clayton, standing, , who appeared in the Denver Center's "Plainsong," in TheatreWorks' "The Grapes of Wrath." If ...

Clifford Shaw, left foreground, Matthew Tardif, center, and his sister, Laura, during picking at Dale Holmes's farm in Caribou.

"Obscene in the Extreme," by Rick Wartzman . Local connection: This account of the burning and banning of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" chronicles one of the less illustrious moments in the history of ...

"But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy." Excerpt from To a Mouse, on ...

PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy has declared war on corporate barons who fire thousands of employees, drive firms into the ground and walk away from the ruins with multimillion-dollar bonuses.

Horace Engdahl has stuck his little stick of dynamite into the fundament of the literary world with his declaration that American literature is "too isolated and insular", too much up its own fundament, that ...

This week, the Fort Collins Library District is recognizing books that have been banned or "challenged" the past 25 years.

Paul Newman , whose piercing blue eyes and handsome looks lit up some of the best films of the past half-century, has died of cancer at the age of 83.

The five winners of an oral reading contest in Poland reprised their performances Sept.

Emma Grace Goh, 4, sits in the aisle Wednesday as Larry Frank, Knox County Library director, reads an excerpt from John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" at the "Big Read" kickoff event in Market Square.

Rumours that movie legend Paul Newman is battling cancer have been confirmed. Star 'putting up a brave fight' A neighbour and business partner of Newman's said the actor told him about the disease 18 months ...

John Steinbeck's - Of Mice and Men;' JK Rowling's - Harry Potter' series. These stories are two of the most challenged books of the 21st century.

Almost 70 years after it was published, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath -- which tells of the dirt-poor Joad family's epic migration from drought-plagued Oklahoma to fruitful Central California -- ...

If you want to feel what tough times are like, try stepping into the shoes of the Okies in the 1930s, when dust storms ruined their crops and the Depression wrecked their finances.

A Kansas City, Kan., parent says she wants public school officials to remove John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men" from a required reading list.

There's a party on Sunday and you're invited. There's a kick-off party for "All Pikes Peak Reads" at America the Beautiful Park.