John Steinbeck IV was born in Manhattan, the second of John (Sr., III) and Gywn Steinbeck. His older brother was Thom (Thomas Myles Steinbeck). John IV is the author of "In Touch" (1969), about his years in Viet Nam, and of "The Other Side of Eden: Life With John Steinbeck," whose unfinished text was completed and published in 2001 by Nancy Steinbeck.
John was drafted in 1964 and sent to Vietnam in 1966, where he was a war correspondent for the Department of Defense and a journalist for the Armed Forces Radio and Television.
In 1968, he returned to Vietnam where he was a correspondent for the Dispatch New Service ("The Other Side of Eden," pp. 86, 124, 360, claims John IV "founded" the DNS; however, see the Holdings of The Swarthmore College Peace Collection for data on Dispatch News Service, founded by Michael Morrow, Richard Hughes, et al., and whose correspondent Seymour Hirsch won a 1970 Pulitzer Prize for "his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of Mỹ Lai).
John died at the Encinitas Hospital following back surgery in 1991 at the age of 44 and is survived by his wife Nancy and his daughter Blake, born in Saigon in 1970, and his two step-children. Blake's mother was Crystal Eastin Brown.
John was drafted in 1964 and sent to Vietnam in 1966, where he was a war correspondent for the Department of Defense and a journalist for the Armed Forces Radio and Television.
In 1968, he returned to Vietnam where he was a correspondent for the Dispatch New Service ("The Other Side of Eden," pp. 86, 124, 360, claims John IV "founded" the DNS; however, see the Holdings of The Swarthmore College Peace Collection for data on Dispatch News Service, founded by Michael Morrow, Richard Hughes, et al., and whose correspondent Seymour Hirsch won a 1970 Pulitzer Prize for "his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of Mỹ Lai).
John died at the Encinitas Hospital following back surgery in 1991 at the age of 44 and is survived by his wife Nancy and his daughter Blake, born in Saigon in 1970, and his two step-children. Blake's mother was Crystal Eastin Brown.
John Steinbeck IV was born in Manhattan, the second of John (Sr., III) and Gywn Steinbeck. His older brother was Thom (Thomas Myles Steinbeck). John IV is the author of "In Touch" (1969), about his years in Viet Nam, and of "The Other Side of Eden: Life With John Steinbeck," whose unfinished text was completed and published in 2001 by Nancy Steinbeck.
John was drafted in 1964 and sent to Vietnam in 1966, where he was a war correspondent for the Department of Defense and a journalist for the Armed Forces Radio and Television.
In 1968, he returned to Vietnam where he was a correspondent for the Dispatch New Service ("The Other Side of Eden," pp. 86, 124, 360, claims John IV "founded" the DNS; however, see the Holdings of The Swarthmore College Peace Collection for data on Dispatch News Service, founded by Michael Morrow, Richard Hughes, et al., and whose correspondent Seymour Hirsch won a 1970 Pulitzer Prize for "his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of Mỹ Lai).
John died at the Encinitas Hospital following back surgery in 1991 at the age of 44 and is survived by his wife Nancy and his daughter Blake, born in Saigon in 1970, and his two step-children. Blake's mother was Crystal Eastin Brown.
John was drafted in 1964 and sent to Vietnam in 1966, where he was a war correspondent for the Department of Defense and a journalist for the Armed Forces Radio and Television.
In 1968, he returned to Vietnam where he was a correspondent for the Dispatch New Service ("The Other Side of Eden," pp. 86, 124, 360, claims John IV "founded" the DNS; however, see the Holdings of The Swarthmore College Peace Collection for data on Dispatch News Service, founded by Michael Morrow, Richard Hughes, et al., and whose correspondent Seymour Hirsch won a 1970 Pulitzer Prize for "his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of Mỹ Lai).
John died at the Encinitas Hospital following back surgery in 1991 at the age of 44 and is survived by his wife Nancy and his daughter Blake, born in Saigon in 1970, and his two step-children. Blake's mother was Crystal Eastin Brown.
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