NEW YORK — A trove of letters and manuscripts from the New York City apartment of Grapes of Wrath author John Steinbeck is going on the auction block.
Steinbeck lived in the Upper East Side apartment for 13 years year until he died in 1968. The material is being offered at Bloomsbury Auctions in New York on June 23. Internet live bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com.
The archive contains Steinbeck’s 1962 Nobel Prize acceptance speech and manuscripts recorded in his neat script on lined yellow paper. Also among the material are some of his never-published works, including a reworking of “Don Quixote.”
Steinbeck is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He penned 27 novels, including Of Mice and Men and East of Eden. Many were adapted for film and the stage.
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