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.Biddle Ranch Small ranch near LOS GATOS,Benchley coauthored a short play called The Circus of CALIFORNIA, where John and Carol Steinbeck livedDoctor Lao with Gwen Steinbeck, which had a short, from the end of the 1930s until their divorce inunsuccessful run in Chicago, and he later went on to 1943.During their time at the Biddle Ranch, theywrite a novel called Side Street.In later years, Bench- played host to an ever-growing circle of friends,ley frequently spent time with John and Elaine Stein- including such Hollywood legends as CHARLESbeck, as both couples had houses in the SAG HARBOR CHAPLIN and DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.area of Long Island.The two men remained closefriends for the remainder of the author s life.bindlestiffs Wandering laborers who driftedfrom ranch to ranch carrying all their belongings inBerry, Anthony (Tony) (unknown) A sardinesmall bundles slung from their shoulders.Steinbeckfisherman and the captain of the WESTERN FLYER, abecame interested in bindlestiffs while he was76-foot purse-seiner that Steinbeck and Rickettsworking on ranches in the Salinas Valley during hischartered for their scientific expedition to the GULFperiodic leaves of absence from STANFORD UNIVER-OF CALIFORNIA, which resulted in the book SEA OFSITY.The plight of the bindlestiff is the principalCORTEZ: A LEISURELY JOURNAL OF TRAVEL ANDtheme of many of his novels, including OF MICERESEARCH.AND MEN and THE GRAPES OF WRATH.Beskow, Bo (1906 1989) Swedish painter whomBlaine, Mahlon (1894 1969) An artist fromSteinbeck met while making a European tour of theNEW YORK whom Steinbeck met during his jour-Nordic countries and Russia with his wife Carol,ney from San Francisco to New York on thesoon after his first commercial success with thefreighter KATRINA.Blaine helped Steinbecknovel OF MICE AND MEN.Steinbeck and thethrough his difficult first visit to New York andpainter remained close friends and faithful corre-then again when the young writer needed helpspondents, particularly during the personally devas-finding a publisher for his novel CUP OF GOLD.tating period after the author s break-up with hisBlaine presented Steinbeck to Guy Holt, ansecond wife, GWENDOLYN CONGER.The two menemployee at Robert M.McBride & Company, whovisited each other frequently.Beskow painted threeagreed to publish the novel on the condition thatportraits of Steinbeck during his career.Blaine illustrate the volume.Blaine s fame as anillustrator, Holt hoped, would guarantee sales forBeswick, Katherine (Kate) (unknown) Stein-Cup of Gold.Steinbeck, however, was unhappybeck s intimate friend from the Stanford Englishwith the cover, which included a picture of aClub.After graduating, she moved to NEW YORK todashing swashbuckler that he felt lent the impres-pursue a career as a writer but remained devoted tosion that the book was a juvenile pirate fantasythe young Steinbeck.The two writers maintained ainstead of a serious work of literature.Blainelong-running platonic relationship by mail duringmoved west to work in HOLLYWOOD and joined upthe difficult years before Steinbeck s success.with the Steinbecks in PACIFIC GROVE, where heBeswick was a constant influence in the youngworked for a time in a business venture to sell awriter s life, lavishing continuous encouragementon him.Beswick often critiqued and retyped Stein- new plastic modeling material with Carol Stein-beck and some friends.beck s disorderly manuscripts before sending themon to his agent, TED MILLER, who would thenBrigham family A wealthy California family forhand-deliver them to New York publishing houses.whom Steinbeck worked as a young man.Stein-On at least one occasion she sent Steinbeck moneybeck was hired by the widowed Alice Brigham toso that he could quit his job and dedicate himself towork as the caretaker of the family s large estate onfinishing a novel.Despite their close relationship,Steinbeck and Beswick never met again face to face the south shore of Lake Tahoe.Steinbeck wasafter their brief time together at Stanford.introduced to her by his friend CARLTON DOOK Brown, Carol Henning Steinbeck 267SHEFFIELD s mother-in-law, Mrs.Price, the owner ofa nearby guesthouse where the young author hadworked during previous summers.Steinbeckremained on the Brigham estate for two years andspent the long winters there in almost total isola-tion.During this time Steinbeck made ample use ofthe Brighams large library to read and do researchfor some of his early short stories.It was here dur-ing the winter of 1927 28 that Steinbeck com-pleted his first novel, CUP OF GOLD.Brown, Carol Henning Steinbeck (1906 1983)John Steinbeck s first wife.The author met CarolHenning in 1928 while he worked as an assistant tohis friend LLOYD SHEBLEY in the Tallac Hatchery inTahoe City, California.Carol and her sister IdellJohn and Carol Steinbeck, 1935 (Center for Steinbeckwere on vacation when they decided to drop in onStudies)their friend Shebley.Steinbeck immediately fell forthe young woman, and the two spent the remain-der of Carol s short vacation together.The youngwoman returned to SAN FRANCISCO, where she the GREAT DEPRESSION.She had literary aspira-worked in the advertising department of the San tions and wrote poetry, some of which was pub-Francisco Chronicle.At the end of September, lished in the Monterey Beacon under theSteinbeck left his job and moved to San Francisco pseudonym, Amnesia Glasscock.Steinbeck s biog-to be near Carol
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