Babb’s observations of rural poverty, particularly during the Depression and the Dust Bowl, would filter through the ...

A Las Vegas house fire that killed four people last week is considered accidental, with ongoing investigations.

Billy Bob Thornton, 69, is an Oscar-winning actor, screenwriter, director and musician best known for the films “Sling Blade” ...

As Collins wrote in his own unpublished memoir, “Bringing in the Sheaves,” he pleaded with Steinbeck to write about what he had witnessed: “What you want to do, John, is to keep your ...

While standing in their driveways, residents in a Las Vegas neighborhood breathed a sigh of relief after learning a deadly ...

according to Clark County Fire Chief John Steinbeck. Steinbeck told reporters that two of those unaccounted for could be children. He said extended family of the victims had been notified ...

In May of that year, John Steinbeck, fresh off the success of “Of Mice and Men,” came to visit Tom Collins, a camp manager and Babb’s boss. Hoping that Steinbeck might write something to ...

A 5- to 7-foot northwesterly (295-degree deep water) sea and swell (with a 7- to 17-second period) is forecast along our ...

Currently, the region appears to be in a classic La Niña pattern, which generally results in below-average rainfall for the ...

Collected by the iconic American writer John Steinbeck, the octopus has received a number of scientific monikers Chihiro Kai Museum specialist Katie Ahlfeld holds up an octopus specimen that was ...

John Steinbeck beat Sanora Babb to the great American Dust Bowl novel—using her field notes. What do we owe her today? Read the full article. Know other book lovers who might like this guide? Forward ...

Her book about Oklahoma farmers forced off their land by catastrophic dust storms had run into the similarly themed juggernaut of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.” It didn’t matter ...