The Ramada Limited - Salinas Steinbeck Package

Works of John Steinbeck The Ramada Limited – Salinas Steinbeck House

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas in 1902 in what is now the Steinbeck House in Oldtown Salinas. He graduated from Salinas High School in 1919 and attended Stanford University in Palo Alto. He later moved to New York to begin his career as a writer, but soon returned to Salinas. Steinbeck spent the next few decades living between New York and the Monterey Bay area, writing novels and raising a family. Steinbeck’s breakthrough novel, Tortilla Flat, catapulted him to fame in 1935. Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for the controversial Grapes of Wrath. In 1962, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968.

Works of John Steinbeck. John Steinbeck chronicled life in the Salinas Valley and Monterey Bay in his internationally acclaimed novels. Steinbeck’s widely read works include:

• Tortilla Flat (1935)
• Of Mice and Men (1936)
• The Long Valley (1937)
• The Grapes of Wrath (1938)
• Cannery Row (1945)
• The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
• East of Eden (1952)

National Steinbeck Center. The National Steinbeck Center in Oldtown Salinas celebrates the life and work of John Steinbeck. Interactive displays, galleries and exhibits bring to life the people and struggles of the Salinas Valley and Monterey Bay portrayed in many of his novels. The Steinbeck Center houses the largest collection of Steinbeck archives in the country, and also serves as a center of arts and culture for visiting exhibits.  [Top]

The Steinbeck House. Located near the National Steinbeck Center, the Steinbeck House is John Steinbeck’s birthplace and childhood home. The beautifully Victorian home was restored in 1974 and opened as a restaurant and gift shop. The menu features locally grown produce and Monterey County wines. Steinbeck memorabilia and photographs are displayed throughout the property.

John Steinbeck Package. Experience Salinas and Monterey through the eyes of famed author John Steinbeck with The Ramada Limited – Salinas Steinbeck Package.  [Top]