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Oct 12, 2013 · Carol Henning was Steinbeck's first wife, a Jazz Age rebel and a Great Depression muse. Susan Shillinglaw, a Steinbeck scholar and expert, tells their story of collaboration, decline, and divorce in this book.
Dec 16, 2013 · Learn about the life and role of Carol Henning, John Steinbeck's first wife and collaborator, in this book by a local scholar and author. Explore their relationship, their friends, their travels and their art in this well-illustrated volume.
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Feb 11, 1983 · CARMEL, Calif. -- Carol Janella Henning Brown, the first wife of Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck, has died at Community Hospital. She was 76. Mrs. Brown had been in failing health...
- Complexities of A Creative Partnership
- Creating The Context of A Story
- Learning to Love Steinbeck
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Susan Shillinglaw isn’t sure Carol Henning ever got over John Steinbeck. The first of his three wives, she married for love — and so did he. Bright, creative, social and smart, she became his editor and typist, his collaborator and his muse. Until she wasn’t. “Carol and John were great together when they were poor, pulling together,” said Shillingl...
When Shillinglaw read “Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare,” by Stephen Greenblatt (2010), she realized he’d written a compelling book despite knowing only fragments of the Bard’s life, complemented by elements of culture and the forces that shaped the man. That, she felt she could do, on behalf of Carol Henning Steinbeck. “So, I ...
Susan Shillinglaw read Steinbeck’s “The Red Pony” during junior high school and hated it. She actually hates any story where an animal suffers or dies. So, she swore off Steinbeck, vowing never to read him again. Yet Shillinglaw, a professor of English and comparative literature for 34 years at San Jose State University, served 18 years as director...
Carol Henning Steinbeck was the editor, typist and collaborator of John Steinbeck, the author of \\"The Grapes of Wrath\\". She came up with the title of the novel and typed the manuscript, but their marriage ended after his fame and success.
- Lisa Crawford Watson
Feb 18, 2023 · Steinbeck’s Phalanx: Carol Henning Steinbeck. February 18, 2023 by steinbeck. First of Steinbeck’s wives, Carol had a profound influence on Steinbeck’s early career. Hear about Carol’s life, personality, and one of the many stories from her time working in Ed Rickett’s lab, in her own words.
Dec 5, 2017 · Steinbeck’s mother Olive Hamilton and first wife, Carol Henning, were both from San Jose, California, and San Jose State University is celebrating each (and the two wives who followed) in a special exhibit of documents and photographs on the 5th floor of the MLK Library, located on the San Jose State University campus, through January 20, 2018.
Apr 2, 2013 · Carol Henning was born in San Jose, four years after John Steinbeck. Precocious and witty, Carol was “a poster child for the decade: she smoked freely, swore energetically and set her own rules.” In the summer of 1928, Carol and a friend vacationed at Lake Tahoe, where Steinbeck was biding his time working at a fish hatchery.
