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About The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies:
San Jose State University
Room 590, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
San Jose, CA 95192 0202
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Hours:
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11:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
| Tuesday: |
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
| Wednesday: |
11:00 AM - 8:00 PM |
| Thursday: |
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
| Friday: |
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Saturday: |
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Sunday: |
closed |
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Telephone: 408 808 2067
Fax: 408 808 2069
Email: steinbeck@sjsu.edu |
Founded in 1973 as the Steinbeck Research Center, the Center is now the largest Steinbeck archive in the world. In 1997, the Center was renamed the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies in honor of its founder, a professor of English at San Jose State. The collection houses over 40 000 items - manuscripts, original letters, inscribed first editions, secondary works, film memorabilia, films, cassettes, and over 1 400 photographs. Significant manuscript collections have been donated to the Center by Elaine Steinbeck, the author's widow; Sharon Brown Bacon, stepdaughter of Steinbeck's first wife Carol; and Marlene Brody, Steinbeck's secretary in Paris in 1954. Scholars, students, and members of the community are welcome to use the collection and view the changing displays in room 590 of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library.
In addition, the Center actively promotes Steinbeck studies. The Center has published The Only Weapon is Your Work, a letter from John Steinbeck to Dennis Murphy; a Grapes of Wrath bibliography in honor of the novel's 50th anniversary; and Centennial Reflections by American Writers in 2002. Each is available through the Center. Twice yearly the Center issues the only journal dedicated to John Steinbeck, Steinbeck Review , an award-winning journal which includes photographs, scholarly papers, and articles of general interest.
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Throughout the academic year, the Center sponsors speakers, films and symposia. Four major conferences have been directed and sponsored or co-sponsored by the Center: "The Grapes of Wrath, 1939-1989: An Interdisciplinary Forum" (1989); Steinbeck and the Environment, (1992) co-sponsored by SJSU and the University of Massachusetts Field Station (proceedings published by University of Alabama Press); "On Cannery Row: A Symposium" (1995); "Beyond Boundaries: Steinbeck and the World" (1997) the Fourth International Steinbeck Congress co-sponsored by SJSU, the Steinbeck Society of Japan, the City of Monterey, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and the Cannery Row Foundation (proceedings published by the University of Alabama Press); and "John Steinbeck's America's: A Centennial Conference at Hofstra University," cosponsored by Hofstra University, San Jose State University , and the Steinbeck Society of Japan.
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