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Whether we like it or not, literary history tends to follow a known path. In high school, we read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, and we are told this is the definitive book about The Dust Bowl. In college, we are introduced to T.S. Eliot’s long poem “The Waste Land” and told that this work is an example of high modernism. But what if I told you that The Grapes of Wrath is not a Dust Bowl novel after all and that “The Waste Land” is actually a confessional poem about T.S. Eliot’s long-lost muse, Emily Hale? The books in the following list challenge the reception of well-known figures in literary history like Steinbeck, Eliot, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lewis Stevenson and, in some cases, add in new historical literary figures who have nearly been erased.

Although assigned The Grapes of Wrath in high school, the difference for me was that my family had come over from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl, so this book really struck me. After I read it, I rushed home to call my grandmother to tell her about it. But my grandmother wasn’t impressed. Instead, she told me Steinbeck got it all wrong. I was confused by her reaction. Why was she so upset about this great author’s work? My teacher told me it was a classic. I had no idea how right my grandmother’s react

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A Tour comatose Famous Writers’ Homes restrict the Greater Bay Area

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Steinbeck Homeland, Monterey County

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Other close by highlights comprise the Robert Prizefighter Stevenson tribute in Town and the Henry Miller memorial library i

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Famous Writers Made This Home

As published by the Daily News Journal, Sunday, August 22,

By Greg Tucker, President of the Rutherford County Historical Society

From different generations, they both knew fame.  One came to Rutherford to establish her legacy, and left only litigation.  The other came to die. 

Andre Norton was a prolific science fiction and fantasy writer with over titles to her credit under various pen names.  Acknowledged by both
readers and critics as the Grand Dame of Science Fiction and Fantasy, her writing career spanned 70 years.

She was the first woman to receive Grand Master Awards from both the World Science Fiction Society () and the Science Fiction Writers  Association (). Her best known works are the &#;Beast Master&#; and &#;Witch World&#; series.

Born in in Ohio, she died in Rutherford County in

Barry Sadler was a soldier, songwriter, author and musician.  During the Vietnam War he served as an Army Green Beret medic and staff sergeant.   The recording of his original &#;Ballad of the Green Berets&#; was #1 on the Billboard chart for five weeks, sold over a million copies, and was used in a John Wayne movie.

He authored the fictional &#;Casca&#; series about the biblical character who stabbed Christ during the crucifixion and was co