Visit the Center for Steinbeck Studies, MLK Library 5th Floor, for a reading by SJSU Professor Emerita Susan Shillinglaw from her new book Steinbeck's Landscapes: Where Story Meets Place, published by Timber Press/Hachette.

Steinbeck’s Landscapes is the first major work to focus on Steinbeck as a predominantly environmental writer. It highlights the places that the Nobel Prize–winning author cherished and explored throughout his life and examines the iconic stories they inspired. We learn how the Salinas Valley of his youth shaped East of Eden; how, in Cannery Row, the improbable diversity of human life washed together in a tight community not unlike a Monterey tidepool; and how, in The Grapes of Wrath, various human connections to land and soil inform every page of Steinbeck’s monumental novel.

This event is free and open to the public.