Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fifth person shared their favorite book at the Feb. 9 meeting of the Friends of the Will Rogers Library: me! When Bobbie Cary ...

HISTORY BY THE WAVES: Author John Steinbeck's birthday is always a major happening around Salinas, which is home to the National Steinbeck Center. It's a place that can be visited throughout the year, ...

In 1958, the city of Monterey reportedly renamed Ocean View Avenue “Cannery Row,” in honor of an industry and era that ultimately would end in 1973 when Hovden, the last remaining cannery closed its ...

CANNERY ROW—John Steinbeck—Viking ($2). The Monterey, Calif. of John Steinbeck’s imagination is the easiest-going community in American literature. It is inhabited by gentle, poetic Filipinos, ...

The author of ‘Homebound’ says a colleague’s remark about John Steinbeck’s ‘Cannery Row’ set her on the path to writing her book.