Cover art, Landscape with Red Pony, 1999, by David Ligare, Collection Knight Ridder Corporation, San Jose, CA.
Photo on page 47 (Hamilton Ranch) by Richard Allman, used courtesy of the photographer.
Images on pages 60, 83, 85, 90 (dog), 91 (scrap), 154, and 157 (Carol and friends) courtesy Sharon Brown Bacon.
Image on page 56 courtesy Brown Brothers.
The following images are courtesy of the California Views Collection: page 61 (file 93-46-24; James K. Piggott, photographer), page 64 (file 88-084-0001; photographer unknown), page 114 (file 99-26-06; photographer unknown, summer of 1932), page 128 (file 71-001-0486; Lewis Josselyn, photographer), page 131 (wikiup; file 3183; E. A. Cohen, photographer, April 1908).
Image on pages 126, 152 (Gwyn), and 179 courtesy Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University.
Image on page 171 (Cabo San Lucas) courtesy of Linda Cicero.
Images on pages 40 and 41 (Spreckels and Spreckels ad) are from the collection of Jim Conway.
Image on pages 126, 152 (Gwyn), and 179 courtesy Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University.
Drawing on page 107 by Walter F. Fisher in Anne B. Fisher, Salinas, the Upside-Down River (New York, Ferrar & Rinehart, 1945).
Images on pages 162 (Cabo San Lucas), 163, and 164 (truck) courtesy of Bill Gilly.
Painting on page 178 by Penny Worthington, courtesy of Steven Hauk Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA.
Image on page 90 (Chautauqua program) courtesy of Miller Library, Hopkins Marine Station.
Images on pages 81, 116 (label), 121, 178 (book cover), and back cover (book cover) from the collection of Jim Johnson.
Image on page 59 courtesy of Lake Tahoe Historical Society.
The following images are from the Library of Congress: page 39 (Cesar Chavez), Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-111017]; 139 (Lincoln Steffens), Prints & Photographs Division [LC-DIG-ggbain-05710]; 143 (Woman at the Dump), Prints & Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-122467]; 145 (Arvin migrant camp), Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection [LC-USF34-009892-C]; 146 (Tom Collins), Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, [LC-USF34-009880-E]; 148 (tear gassing), Prints & Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-122467], 150 (Nipomo), Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection [LC-DIG-ppmsca-03054].
Painting on page 45, Landscape with Mt. Toro, 2004, by David Ligare, courtesy of Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Images on pages 141 and 158 courtesy of Los Gatos Library.
Image on page 146 (cover) is reprinted courtesy of the Simon Lubin Society.
Images on pages 28 (Chinatown) and 29 courtesy of Monterey County Historical Society.
The following are courtesy of the Monterey Public Library, California History Room: images on pages 9 (Chinatown, J. K. Oliver, photographer), 66, 69 (visitors on Lovers Point; Morgan Collection), 73 (Morgan Collection), 75 (Ruth Speakman, photographer), 77, 82, 101 (lighthouse; R. J. Arnold, photographer), 102 (Daniel Freeman, photographer), 103, 123 (Rey Ruppel, photographer), 131 (Pine Inn, L. S. Slevin, photographer), 136 (Harbick Collection), 137 (Robinson Jeffers; Morgan Collection), and 138 (George A. Cain, photographer, Harbick Collection)
Photos on pages 11 and 174 (JS with Charley) ©1991 Hans Namuth Estate, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.
Images on pages 9 (workers; Edwin F. Halloran Collection), 20, 21, 32, 34 (workers; Edwin F. Halloran Collection), 43 (JS and Glenn Graves), 54, 79, 92, 149 (from the Valley of the World Agriculture Exhibition), 152 (Gwen and mother), 155, 157 (JS), 164 (JS and Gwyn), 165 (Willie), 167 (crew), 174 (JS and family), 175, 177, and back cover (workers; Edwin F. Halloran Collection) courtesy of National Steinbeck Center, Salinas.
Photo on page 111 and back cover (JS) by Sonya Noskowiak, used by permission of Arthur Noskowiak.
Image on page 156 (Wood) courtesy of Oregon Historical Society, #CN023873.
Images on pages 91 (tent cabins), 95, and 101 (Lovers Point), and 104 courtesy of Pacific Grove Heritage Society.
Images on pages 65, 68, 71, 72, 74 (photo by Julian P. Graham), 76 (photo by Julian P. Graham), 78, and 125 courtesy of Pebble Beach Company Lagorio Archives.
Image on page 165 (JS, Ricketts, and friends) courtesy of Katharine A. Rodger and Ed Ricketts, Jr.
Image on page 80 is courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library.
Images on pages 108, 113 (Ricketts), and 120 (chicken walk) © Peter Stackpole/Time Life/Getty Images.
Images on pages 5, 13, 19, 25 (Olive), 47 (Hamiltons), 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 55, 62, 84 (cottage, 1908), courtesy Stanford University, Department of Special Collections and University Archives.
Image on page 180 © Fred Stein, courtesy of Peter Stein.
Image on page 140 from the John Steinbeck Collection (#6239), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia.
Images on pages 14, 70 (Carmel Mission), and 124 (Colton Hall) courtesy of Charles Willis.
All other photographs are by Nancy Burnett. All other images are either in the author’s collection or in the public domain.
All previously unpublished extracts © 2006 by Waverly Kaffaga, Executrix of the Estate of Elaine A. Steinbeck. Extracts from Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck, © 1935, renewed © 1963 by John Steinbeck. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.
Extracts from Steinbeck: A Life in Letters by Elaine A. Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten, editors, © 1952 by John Steinbeck, © 1969 by The Estate of John Steinbeck, © 1975 by Elaine A. Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.
Extracts from The Log From the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck, © 1941 by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts. Copyright renewed © 1969 by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts Jr. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Extracts from Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, © 1945 by John Steinbeck. Renewed © 1973 by Elaine Steinbeck, John Steinbeck IV and Thom Steinbeck. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.
Extracts from East of Eden by John Steinbeck, © 1952 by John Steinbeck, renewed © 1980 by Elaine Steinbeck, John Steinbeck IV and Thom Steinbeck. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.
Extracts from Journal of a Novel by John Steinbeck, © 1969 by the Executors of the Estate of John Steinbeck. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.
Extracts from Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck, © 1954 by John Steinbeck. Copyright renewed © 1982 by Elaine Steinbeck, Thom Steinbeck and John Steinbeck IV. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.
Extracts from To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck, © 1933, renewed © 1961 by John Steinbeck. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.
Extracts from America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction by John Steinbeck, edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Jackson Benson, © 2002 by Elaine Steinbeck and Thomas Steinbeck. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Thanks are extended to the following libraries for providing access to and quotations from Steinbeck archives: Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries; Harold A. Miller Library, Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University; the Annie Laurie Williams Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University; Pierpont Morgan Library; National Steinbeck Center, Salinas; Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University; Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.