Travels with Charley Resources
Articles and Interviews
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Journalist Bill Steigerwald even has a whole website devoted to the "truth about [Steinbeck's travels with] Charley."
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Journalist Bill Steigerwald retraced Steinbeck's steps and wrote about it in a 2010 article. His conclusion? Charley is pretty much fiction.
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The New York Times's Charles McGrath takes a stab at sifting fact from fiction in Travels with Charley, using Steigerwald's research and more.
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Bill Steigerwald writes about the fact that Penguin Group has basically admitted Travels with Charley is fiction, a couple of years after he originally blew the whistle.
Websites
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Check out the Penguin site for the book, with Jay Parini's synopsis (he wrote the introduction to the Penguin edition).
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Here's a one-stop shop for all things Steinbeck.
Movie or TV Productions
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Okay, not really—but Travels with Charley was (kind of) made into a TV movie.
Video
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Bill Steigerwald gets Q and A'd about Charley on C-SPAN.
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Steinbeck's son, Thomas, visited the Carlsbad City library to discuss his dad and Travels with Charley.
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Check out this title sequence for a Travels with Charley movie... that, um, doesn't exist.
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Check out Steinbeck receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
Audio
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If you can't handle text, perhaps you'll like this audiobook version of the book.
Images
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The cover of this edition of Travels with Charley features Steinbeck with his traveling buddy.
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This map of Steinbeck's path is just a little less precise than Google Maps, but perhaps better than the first launch of Apple Maps (ooo, cold burn).