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1954 June, novel, Sweet Thursday, published by Viking (a sequel to Cannery Row).
1955 March, purchases a summer home in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York; November 3, New York City opening of Pipe Dream, a Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein III musical based on Sweet Thursday.
1957 April, novel, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, published by Viking; film of The Wayward Bus released.
1958 September, Once There Was a War, a collection of his 1943 wartime dispatches, published by Viking.
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1959 February - October, travels in England and Wales, researching background for a modern English version of Malory's Morte d'Arthur (1485).
1960 September - November, tours United States with poodle, Charley.
1961 April, twelfth novel, The Winter of Our Discontent, published by Viking.
1962 July, Travels with Charley, the journal of his 1960 tour, published by Viking; October 25, Steinbeck is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1963 October - December, travels to Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and Russia on United States Information Agency cultural tour, with dramatist Edward Albee. |
