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Gwyn Conger Steinbeck was the second wife of John Steinbeck, master story-teller and Nobel Prize winner. She was born 25th October 1916. She met Steinbeck in late 1938 or early 1939, when she was just 22. At a border crossing to Mexico in March 1944, she said she was 27 which supports her 1916 birth date.
Sep 7, 2018 · John Steinbeck’s wife Gwyn Conger Steinbeck describes the author as “a sadistic man” and a serial womaniser, in a newly unearthed memoir found in Wales, which is set to be published for...
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Jan 2, 1976 · BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 1 (AP) — Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck, former wife of John Steinbeck, the late novelist, died Tuesday at a hospital here of cardiac and respiratory failure following an...
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Dec 5, 2019 · Gwyn Conger, John Steinbeck's second wife, died in 1975. Douglas Brown, the journalist she hired and fired to ghost-write her memoir, died in 1997. Brown's unpublished manuscript of the interrupted project, left to a relative in England, eventually came to the attention of a businessman named Bruce Lawson, who has chosen to resurrect the ...
Sep 7, 2018 · Gwyn’s memoir relates how when she finally left him he was stunned – and he never forgave her. Steinbeck’s resolute and unfair attack on his second wife through his lawyers in the New York...
Sep 6, 2018 · Gwyn (originally Gwendolyne) Conger Steinbeck was born in 1916. Her forbears had been wealthy, and she met John Steinbeck in Hollywood, where she had gone looking for work. She was a night club singer, film extra and staff singer on CBS.
- Gwyn Conger Steinbeck, Douglas Brown
