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Oct 12, 2013 · I predict that Susan Shillinglaw’s life of Steinbeck and Carol Henning’s together from Jazz Age joy to Great Depression decline—a dramatic story told by the perfect narrator—will have many. Drawings by Carol Henning Steinbeck courtesy of the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University.
Dec 16, 2013 · Content: They met at Lake Tahoe in 1928 and two years later Carol Henning and John Steinbeck were married. The couple lived in San Francisco, Los Gatos and Pacific Grove during what many...
- Robert Walch
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
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...
- 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.
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.
Carol Henning Brown. Birth. 15 Mar 1906. San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, USA. Death. 8 Feb 1983 (aged 76) Monterey County, California, USA. Burial. Cremated, Ashes scattered. Specifically: Scattered at Carmel River Add to Map. Memorial ID. 141187879. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial. Photos 2. Flowers 16.
