National Steinbeck Center

National Steinbeck Center is located at 1 Main St in Salinas and has been in the business of Museum since 1983.

The center's exhibits document the life of Pulitzer- and Nobel-prize winner John Steinbeck and the history of the nearby communities that inspired novels such as East of Eden. Highlights include reproductions of the green pickup-camper from Travels with Charley and the bunkroom from Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck House, the author's Victorian birthplace, at 132 Central Avenue, is two blocks from...

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Located in the Monterey County town of Salinas, the lettuce capital of the world, this museum is a tribute to Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. A Bay Area native, Steinbeck attended Stanford University in Palo Alto after he graduated from Salinas High School in 1919. His most famous works include Tortilla Flat (1935) and the Pulitzer Prize winner The Grapes of Wrath (1939). His...

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