This March 2012 photo shows The Steinbeck House, where author John Steinbeck grew up in Salinas, Calif. The house, which is now a restaurant, is located near the National Steinbeck Center, a museum dedicated to preserving Steinbeck’s legacy. (AP Photo/Joseph Frazier)

American author John Steinbeck, takes a rest from intense work on a new novel in an undated photo. (AP Photo)

This undated photo supplied by the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, Calif., shows an exhibit at the museum about Lee Chong, the grocer from writer John Steinbeck’s novel “Cannery Row.” The center is dedicated to preserving Steinbeck’s legacy and offers visitors insight into how Steinbeck’s fiction was inspired by real people and places. (AP Photo/National Steinbeck Center/Esmeralda Montenegro Owen)

This undated photo supplied by the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, Calif., shows an exhibit about Ed Ricketts, a real person who was the inspiration for the character Doc, the eccentric operator of a marine biology lab in John Steinbeck’s novel, “Cannery Row.” The center is dedicated to preserving Steinbeck’s legacy and offers visitors insight into how Steinbeck’s fiction was inspired by real people and places. (AP Photo/National Steinbeck Center/Esmeralda Montenegro Owen)

3-25-09 Author John Steinbeck for Grapes of Wrath story for Sunday

**FILE** This 1965 file photo shows author John Steinbeck winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for literature. A son and a granddaughter Steinbeck hold the publishing rights to 10 of his early works, including "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men," a federal judge has ruled, turning away a publishing house and others who claimed the rights. U.S. District Judge Richard Owen said in a 10-page order dated Thursday that the rights properly belong to the author's son, Thomas Steinbeck, and granddaughter Blake Smyle. (AP Photo/File)