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John Steinbeck talks to media in the office of his publisher in New York on Oct. 25, 1962. Anthony Camerano/AP hide caption

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An unearthed John Steinbeck column probes the strength of U.S. democracy

October 28, 2022 • Decades ago, as communists and suspected communists were being blacklisted and debates spread over the future of American democracy, John Steinbeck wrote about his homeland in Le Figaro.

A Young John Steinbeck's Unpublished Werewolf Novel Isn't Going To Print

American author John Steinbeck, winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath and 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, in an undated photo. An early, unpublished Steinbeck novel concerns brutal murders and a werewolf. AP hide caption

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A Young John Steinbeck's Unpublished Werewolf Novel Isn't Going To Print

May 28, 2021 • A Steinbeck scholar says Murder at Full Moon, a mystery about a series of brutal murders that appear to be the work of a werewolf, should be available to all. Steinbeck's estate disagrees.