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First wife of famous author John Steinbeck.
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Author John Steinbeck had three wives:
1) Carol Henning Steinbeck Brown, married 1930 and divorced 1942; lived in Carmel Valley, CA, died February 8, 1983, Monterey, CA
2) Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck, married 1943 and divorced 1948 died on December 30,1975, Colorado
3) Elaine Anderson Scott Steinbeck, married 1950, died April 27, 2003 in New York. Her ashes are interred, next to John Steinbeck's in the Garden of Memories in Salinas in the Hamilton Family plot.
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John Steinbeck met Carol Henning (d. 1983) at Tahoe City in 1928 and followed her to San Francisco. Before moving to Pacific Grove, in 1930 they lived for a short time in Eagle Rock where they were married. In 1932, Carol initiated and then broke off the affair with Joseph Campbell. In 1936 John and Carol built their first home in Los Gatos.
In addition to her strong support of Steinbeck's writing career, Carol is credited with important intellectual and editorial contributions to his best work, including suggesting the title for The Grapes of Wrath. They divorced in 1942. Her collection of letters and memorabilia is housed at the Center for Steinbeck Studies. The biography Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage describes their relationship during the formative years of the writer's career.
Steinbeck met Gwyndolyn Conger (d. 1975), a professional singer nearly 20 years his junior, in Hollywood while still married to Carol. They married in 1943, had two children Thomas (Thom) Steinbeck and John Steinbeck IV , and divorced in 1948. They moved to Monterey for a few months in 1944 but lived in New York for most of their marriage. Cathy, the evil force of East of Eden, is based on his sense of betrayal over Gwyn's infidelity.
Actress and stage manager Elaine Anderson Scott (1914-2003) was married to movie actor Zachary Scott when she met Steinbeck in Carmel in 1949. They married in 1950 and remained together, living in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, until his death. As executor of the Steinbeck estate, Elaine worked to keep his books in print and edited a volume of his letters. She is buried with other members of the Steinbeck family in the Garden of Memories, Salinas.
In the early years of the 20th century, San Jose was the sleepy center of the agricultural Santa Clara Valley at the southern end of San Francisco Bay - just 60 miles north of Salinas. Steinbeck passed though the orchards and canneries of the area numerous times on his way north to attend Stanford University.
He moved to San Francisco, 50 miles north of San Jose, to be close to Carol Henning shortly after they met at Lake Tahoe in 1928.
An important collection of memorabilia assembled by Carol, a San Jose native who became Steinbeck's first wife, is housed in the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.
On leaving the Monterey Peninsula in 1936 they moved to the foothills above Los Gatos overlooking the former orchard lands that house the suburbs of modern Silicon Valley.
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John Steinbeck and his wife, Carol Henning, lived in a small house in Monte Sereno in the 1930's where he completed writing one of his most popular novels: Of Mice and Men. Because the area became increasingly populated and noisy (he complained of the noise in the journal he kept while writing The Grapes of Wrath), Steinbeck sold the house and built another on the old Biddle Ranch property some five miles south of Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz Mountains. His wife typed the manuscript and gave it it's name which was taken from the song, the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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First wife of famous author John Steinbeck.
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Author John Steinbeck had three wives:
1) Carol Henning Steinbeck Brown, married 1930 and divorced 1942; lived in Carmel Valley, CA, died February 8, 1983, Monterey, CA
2) Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck, married 1943 and divorced 1948 died on December 30,1975, Colorado
3) Elaine Anderson Scott Steinbeck, married 1950, died April 27, 2003 in New York. Her ashes are interred, next to John Steinbeck's in the Garden of Memories in Salinas in the Hamilton Family plot.
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John Steinbeck met Carol Henning (d. 1983) at Tahoe City in 1928 and followed her to San Francisco. Before moving to Pacific Grove, in 1930 they lived for a short time in Eagle Rock where they were married. In 1932, Carol initiated and then broke off the affair with Joseph Campbell. In 1936 John and Carol built their first home in Los Gatos.
In addition to her strong support of Steinbeck's writing career, Carol is credited with important intellectual and editorial contributions to his best work, including suggesting the title for The Grapes of Wrath. They divorced in 1942. Her collection of letters and memorabilia is housed at the Center for Steinbeck Studies. The biography Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage describes their relationship during the formative years of the writer's career.
Steinbeck met Gwyndolyn Conger (d. 1975), a professional singer nearly 20 years his junior, in Hollywood while still married to Carol. They married in 1943, had two children Thomas (Thom) Steinbeck and John Steinbeck IV , and divorced in 1948. They moved to Monterey for a few months in 1944 but lived in New York for most of their marriage. Cathy, the evil force of East of Eden, is based on his sense of betrayal over Gwyn's infidelity.
Actress and stage manager Elaine Anderson Scott (1914-2003) was married to movie actor Zachary Scott when she met Steinbeck in Carmel in 1949. They married in 1950 and remained together, living in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, until his death. As executor of the Steinbeck estate, Elaine worked to keep his books in print and edited a volume of his letters. She is buried with other members of the Steinbeck family in the Garden of Memories, Salinas.
In the early years of the 20th century, San Jose was the sleepy center of the agricultural Santa Clara Valley at the southern end of San Francisco Bay - just 60 miles north of Salinas. Steinbeck passed though the orchards and canneries of the area numerous times on his way north to attend Stanford University.
He moved to San Francisco, 50 miles north of San Jose, to be close to Carol Henning shortly after they met at Lake Tahoe in 1928.
An important collection of memorabilia assembled by Carol, a San Jose native who became Steinbeck's first wife, is housed in the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.
On leaving the Monterey Peninsula in 1936 they moved to the foothills above Los Gatos overlooking the former orchard lands that house the suburbs of modern Silicon Valley.
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John Steinbeck and his wife, Carol Henning, lived in a small house in Monte Sereno in the 1930's where he completed writing one of his most popular novels: Of Mice and Men. Because the area became increasingly populated and noisy (he complained of the noise in the journal he kept while writing The Grapes of Wrath), Steinbeck sold the house and built another on the old Biddle Ranch property some five miles south of Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz Mountains. His wife typed the manuscript and gave it it's name which was taken from the song, the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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First wife of famous author John Steinbeck.
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Author John Steinbeck had three wives:
1) Carol Henning Steinbeck Brown, married 1930 and divorced 1942; lived in Carmel Valley, CA, died February 8, 1983, Monterey, CA
2) Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck, married 1943 and divorced 1948 died on December 30,1975, Colorado
3) Elaine Anderson Scott Steinbeck, married 1950, died April 27, 2003 in New York. Her ashes are interred, next to John Steinbeck's in the Garden of Memories in Salinas in the Hamilton Family plot.
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John Steinbeck met Carol Henning (d. 1983) at Tahoe City in 1928 and followed her to San Francisco. Before moving to Pacific Grove, in 1930 they lived for a short time in Eagle Rock where they were married. In 1932, Carol initiated and then broke off the affair with Joseph Campbell. In 1936 John and Carol built their first home in Los Gatos.
In addition to her strong support of Steinbeck's writing career, Carol is credited with important intellectual and editorial contributions to his best work, including suggesting the title for The Grapes of Wrath. They divorced in 1942. Her collection of letters and memorabilia is housed at the Center for Steinbeck Studies. The biography Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage describes their relationship during the formative years of the writer's career.
Steinbeck met Gwyndolyn Conger (d. 1975), a professional singer nearly 20 years his junior, in Hollywood while still married to Carol. They married in 1943, had two children Thomas (Thom) Steinbeck and John Steinbeck IV , and divorced in 1948. They moved to Monterey for a few months in 1944 but lived in New York for most of their marriage. Cathy, the evil force of East of Eden, is based on his sense of betrayal over Gwyn's infidelity.
Actress and stage manager Elaine Anderson Scott (1914-2003) was married to movie actor Zachary Scott when she met Steinbeck in Carmel in 1949. They married in 1950 and remained together, living in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, until his death. As executor of the Steinbeck estate, Elaine worked to keep his books in print and edited a volume of his letters. She is buried with other members of the Steinbeck family in the Garden of Memories, Salinas.
In the early years of the 20th century, San Jose was the sleepy center of the agricultural Santa Clara Valley at the southern end of San Francisco Bay - just 60 miles north of Salinas. Steinbeck passed though the orchards and canneries of the area numerous times on his way north to attend Stanford University.
He moved to San Francisco, 50 miles north of San Jose, to be close to Carol Henning shortly after they met at Lake Tahoe in 1928.
An important collection of memorabilia assembled by Carol, a San Jose native who became Steinbeck's first wife, is housed in the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.
On leaving the Monterey Peninsula in 1936 they moved to the foothills above Los Gatos overlooking the former orchard lands that house the suburbs of modern Silicon Valley.
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John Steinbeck and his wife, Carol Henning, lived in a small house in Monte Sereno in the 1930's where he completed writing one of his most popular novels: Of Mice and Men. Because the area became increasingly populated and noisy (he complained of the noise in the journal he kept while writing The Grapes of Wrath), Steinbeck sold the house and built another on the old Biddle Ranch property some five miles south of Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz Mountains. His wife typed the manuscript and gave it it's name which was taken from the song, the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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First wife of famous author John Steinbeck.
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Author John Steinbeck had three wives:
1) Carol Henning Steinbeck Brown, married 1930 and divorced 1942; lived in Carmel Valley, CA, died February 8, 1983, Monterey, CA
2) Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck, married 1943 and divorced 1948 died on December 30,1975, Colorado
3) Elaine Anderson Scott Steinbeck, married 1950, died April 27, 2003 in New York. Her ashes are interred, next to John Steinbeck's in the Garden of Memories in Salinas in the Hamilton Family plot.
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John Steinbeck met Carol Henning (d. 1983) at Tahoe City in 1928 and followed her to San Francisco. Before moving to Pacific Grove, in 1930 they lived for a short time in Eagle Rock where they were married. In 1932, Carol initiated and then broke off the affair with Joseph Campbell. In 1936 John and Carol built their first home in Los Gatos.
In addition to her strong support of Steinbeck's writing career, Carol is credited with important intellectual and editorial contributions to his best work, including suggesting the title for The Grapes of Wrath. They divorced in 1942. Her collection of letters and memorabilia is housed at the Center for Steinbeck Studies. The biography Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage describes their relationship during the formative years of the writer's career.
Steinbeck met Gwyndolyn Conger (d. 1975), a professional singer nearly 20 years his junior, in Hollywood while still married to Carol. They married in 1943, had two children Thomas (Thom) Steinbeck and John Steinbeck IV , and divorced in 1948. They moved to Monterey for a few months in 1944 but lived in New York for most of their marriage. Cathy, the evil force of East of Eden, is based on his sense of betrayal over Gwyn's infidelity.
Actress and stage manager Elaine Anderson Scott (1914-2003) was married to movie actor Zachary Scott when she met Steinbeck in Carmel in 1949. They married in 1950 and remained together, living in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, until his death. As executor of the Steinbeck estate, Elaine worked to keep his books in print and edited a volume of his letters. She is buried with other members of the Steinbeck family in the Garden of Memories, Salinas.
In the early years of the 20th century, San Jose was the sleepy center of the agricultural Santa Clara Valley at the southern end of San Francisco Bay - just 60 miles north of Salinas. Steinbeck passed though the orchards and canneries of the area numerous times on his way north to attend Stanford University.
He moved to San Francisco, 50 miles north of San Jose, to be close to Carol Henning shortly after they met at Lake Tahoe in 1928.
An important collection of memorabilia assembled by Carol, a San Jose native who became Steinbeck's first wife, is housed in the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.
On leaving the Monterey Peninsula in 1936 they moved to the foothills above Los Gatos overlooking the former orchard lands that house the suburbs of modern Silicon Valley.
[SOURCE]
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John Steinbeck and his wife, Carol Henning, lived in a small house in Monte Sereno in the 1930's where he completed writing one of his most popular novels: Of Mice and Men. Because the area became increasingly populated and noisy (he complained of the noise in the journal he kept while writing The Grapes of Wrath), Steinbeck sold the house and built another on the old Biddle Ranch property some five miles south of Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz Mountains. His wife typed the manuscript and gave it it's name which was taken from the song, the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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