24-12-2023, 03:36 PM
(24-12-2023, 11:11 AM)zqwerty Wrote: Lilith7, re John Steinbeck:
Early life
Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California.[8] He was of German, English, and Irish descent.[9] Johann Adolf Großsteinbeck (1828–1913), Steinbeck's paternal grandfather, was a founder of Mount Hope, a short-lived messianic farming colony in Palestine that disbanded after Arab attackers killed his brother and raped his brother's wife and mother-in-law. He arrived in the United States in 1858, shortening the family name to Steinbeck. The family farm in Heiligenhaus, Mettmann, Germany, is still named "Großsteinbeck"
from here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
Cheers for that, he's one of my favourite authors & I've got most of his books.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)