7/4/2023 0 Comments Steinbeck museum cannery row![]() ![]() ![]() The Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who grew up in Salinas, wrote about many things: migrant workers, labor "agitators," World War II, the Mexican Revolution, New England, Russia, even Vietnam. It is the largest museum dedicated to a single American writer. Whether you met these classic characters while reading the novels of John Steinbeck or you're encountering them for the first time, they come to life at the National Steinbeck Center, a sprawling and modernistic museum and study center in Old Town Salinas. ![]() They were the stuff of another America: Tom Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath." George and Lenny in "Of Mice and Men." Lee Chong, Doc and the delightfully larcenous Mack and the bums in "Cannery Row." Danny and Pilon in "Tortilla Flat." Adam and Cal Trask in "East of Eden." ![]()
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