Editing John Steinbeck (section)

===Commemoration===
[[File:MontereyCanneryRow.jpg|thumb|[[Cannery Row]] in Monterey]]
[[File:NationalSteinbeckCentre.jpg|thumb|[[National Steinbeck Center]] in [[Salinas, California]]]]
[[File:John Steinbeck Highway Sign.jpg|thumb|right|U.S. Route 101 is signed as the John Steinbeck Highway through Salinas.]]
Steinbeck's [[John Steinbeck House (Salinas, California)|boyhood home]], a turreted [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] building in downtown Salinas, has been preserved and restored by the Valley Guild, a nonprofit organization. Fixed menu lunches are served Monday through Saturday, and the house is open for [[Walking tour|tours]] on Sunday afternoons during the summer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infopoint.com/mry/orgs/steinbeck/ |title=John Steinbeck's Home and Birthplace |access-date=October 3, 2007 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061016102852/http://www.infopoint.com/mry/orgs/steinbeck/ |archive-date=October 16, 2006 }}, Information Point. Retrieved 2007.</ref>

The [[National Steinbeck Center]] is two blocks away at 1 [[Main Street]]. Dana Gioia (chair of the [[National Endowment for the Arts]]) told an audience at the center, "This is really the best modern literary shrine in the country, and I've seen them all."{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} Its "Steinbeckiana" includes "Rocinante", the camper-truck in which Steinbeck made the cross-country trip described in ''Travels with Charley''.

His father's cottage on Eleventh Street in Pacific Grove, where Steinbeck wrote some of his earliest books, also survives.<ref name="Journey" />

In Monterey, [[Pacific Biological Laboratories|Ed Ricketts's laboratory]] survives (though it is not yet open to the public), and at the corner that Steinbeck describes in ''[[Cannery Row (novel)|Cannery Row]]'', also the store that once belonged to Lee Chong and the adjacent vacant lot frequented by the hoboes of Cannery Row. The site of the Hovden [[Sardine]] Cannery next to Doc's laboratory is now occupied by the [[Monterey Bay Aquarium]]. In 1958, the street that Steinbeck described as "Cannery Row" in the novel, once named Ocean View Avenue, was renamed [[Cannery Row]] in honor of the novel. The town of Monterey has commemorated Steinbeck's work with an avenue of flags depicting characters from ''Cannery Row'', historical plaques, and sculptured busts depicting Steinbeck and Ricketts.<ref name="Journey" />

On February 27, 1979 (the 77th anniversary of the writer's birth), the [[United States Postal Service]] issued a stamp featuring Steinbeck, starting the Postal Service's Literary Arts series honoring American writers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2008/sr08_015.htm |title=Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Gets 'Stamp of Approval' |publisher=United States Postal Service |date=February 21, 2008 |access-date=March 15, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080326095700/http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2008/sr08_015.htm |archive-date=March 26, 2008 }}</ref>

Steinbeck was inducted into the [[DeMolay International]] Hall of Fame in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://demolay.org/halloffame/bio.php?id=45 |title=John Steinbeck |access-date=July 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710174757/https://demolay.org/halloffame/bio.php?id=45 |archive-date=July 10, 2017 |url-status=live  }}</ref>

On December 5, 2007, California Governor [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] and First Lady [[Maria Shriver]] inducted Steinbeck into the [[California Hall of Fame]], located at [[the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts]].<ref>[http://www.californiamuseum.org/Exhibits/Hall-of-Fame/inductees.html Steinbeck inducted into California Hall of Fame]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928015726/http://www.californiamuseum.org/Exhibits/Hall-of-Fame/inductees.html |date=September 28, 2008 }}, California Museum. Retrieved 2007.</ref> His son, author [[Thomas Steinbeck]], accepted the award on his behalf.

[[Monterey Bay Roller Derby]] was founded in 2010. Their team names over the years have referenced Steinbeck, including Beasts of Eden, Cannery Rollers, Steinwreckers and Babes of Wrath. Their juniors league was known as the Dread Ponies.

To commemorate the 112th anniversary of Steinbeck's birthday on February 27, 2014, Google displayed an interactive doodle utilizing animation which included illustrations portraying scenes and quotes from several novels by the author.<ref>{{cite news|title=Google Doodle Celebrates John Steinbeck|url=https://time.com/#10346/john-steinbeck-google-doodle/|author=Laura Stampler|publisher=Time Inc.|date=February 27, 2014|access-date=March 8, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827191323/http://time.com/#10346/john-steinbeck-google-doodle/|archive-date=August 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=John Steinbeck: Google Doodle pays tribute to author on 112th anniversary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/27/john-steinbeck-google-doodle-tribute|author=Alison Flood|newspaper=The Guardian|date=February 27, 2014|access-date=March 8, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304013627/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/27/john-steinbeck-google-doodle-tribute|archive-date=March 4, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Google Doodle celebrates the work of John Steinbeck|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-google-doodle-john-steinbeck-20140227,0,6115494.story|author=Carolyn Kellogg|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=February 27, 2014|access-date=March 8, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308000725/http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-google-doodle-john-steinbeck-20140227,0,6115494.story|archive-date=March 8, 2014}}</ref>

Steinbeck and his friend Ed Ricketts appear as fictionalized characters in the 2016 novel ''Monterey Bay'', about the founding of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, by Lindsay Hatton (Penguin Press).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thepenguinpress.com/book/monterey-bay/ |title=Penguin Press – Penguin Books USA |access-date=December 6, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220085101/http://thepenguinpress.com/book/monterey-bay/ |archive-date=December 20, 2016 }}</ref>

In February 2016, [[California Department of Transportation|Caltrans]] installed signage to identify a five-mile segment of [[U.S. Route 101]] in Salinas as the John Steinbeck Highway, in accordance with a 2014 state legislative resolution.<ref name="Zentz">{{cite news |last1=Zentz |first1=Rachel |title=Signs up marking 'John Steinbeck Highway' |url=https://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/2016/02/26/signs-up-marking-john-steinbeck-highway/81004170/ |access-date=October 1, 2022 |work=The Salinas Californian |date=February 26, 2016 |archive-date=October 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001201107/https://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/2016/02/26/signs-up-marking-john-steinbeck-highway/81004170/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:JohnSteinbeck waterfront park 20201004 091700.jpg|thumb|left|John Steinbeck Waterfront Park]]

In 2019 the Sag Harbor town board approved the creation of the John Steinbeck Waterfront Park across from the iconic town windmill. The structures on the parcel were demolished and park benches installed near the beach. The Beebe windmill replica already had a plaque memorializing the author who wrote from a small hut overlooking the cove during his sojourn in the literary haven.