Travels with Charley Resources

Journalist Bill Steigerwald even has a whole website devoted to the "truth about [Steinbeck's travels with] Charley."

Journalist Bill Steigerwald retraced Steinbeck's steps and wrote about it in a 2010 article. His conclusion? Charley is pretty much fiction.

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.

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.

Check out the Penguin site for the book, with Jay Parini's synopsis (he wrote the introduction to the Penguin edition).

Here's a one-stop shop for all things Steinbeck.

Okay, not really—but Travels with Charley was (kind of) made into a TV movie.

Bill Steigerwald gets Q and A'd about Charley on C-SPAN.

Steinbeck's son, Thomas, visited the Carlsbad City library to discuss his dad and Travels with Charley.

Check out this title sequence for a Travels with Charley movie... that, um, doesn't exist.

Check out Steinbeck receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.

If you can't handle text, perhaps you'll like this audiobook version of the book.

The cover of this edition of Travels with Charley features Steinbeck with his traveling buddy.

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).