Steinbeck
Americannoun
noun
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As John Steinbeck assured Jackie Kennedy in 1964: “You talked of Scotland as a lost cause and that is not true. Scotland is an unwon cause.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
This outdoor thriller wouldn’t be misplaced on a shelf alongside certain tales by Faulkner, Hemingway or Steinbeck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Auden was a champion of his work, as was Nobel-prize winner John Steinbeck.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024
Although she had contributed some of the material Steinbeck used, he never acknowledged Babb’s assistance.
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024
On an impulse he turned off Main Street and walked up Central Avenue to number 130, the high white house of Ernest Steinbeck.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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