Rare Steinbeck story, set in Paris, published this week
Posted July 30, 2019 7:00 am
NEW YORK (AP) - It turns out Ernest Hemingway wasn't the only Great American Writer with something to say about Paris.
Hemingway's contemporary and fellow Nobel laureate, John Steinbeck, was best known for "The Grapes of Wrath," ''Of Mice and Men" and other fiction set in his native California. But he was a world citizen for much of his adult life, and he absorbed enough of Paris to write down some memories and impressions, and add a funny, fictional spin.
In the mid-1950s, Steinbeck wrote a series of columns for the French newspaper Le Figaro titled "One American In Paris." One of those pieces, widely believed to have never come out in English, appears this week in the summer issue of The Strand Magazine.
FILE - This undated file photo shows American novelist John Steinbeck, who won the 1962 Nobel prize in literature for his novel "The Grapes of Wrath." In the mid-1950s, Steinbeck wrote a series of columns for the French-language newspaper Le Figaro, titled âOne American In Paris.â One piece is coming out this week for the first time in English, appearing in the summer issue of The Strand Magazine, a literary quarterly. (AP Photo, File)
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