Editing John Steinbeck (section)

===''Travels with Charley''===
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In 1960, Steinbeck bought a pickup truck and had it modified with a custom-built [[campervan|camper top]]{{snd}}which was rare at the time{{snd}}and drove across the United States with his faithful "blue" [[standard poodle]], Charley. Steinbeck nicknamed his truck ''[[Rocinante]]'' after [[Don Quixote]]'s "noble steed". In this sometimes comical, sometimes melancholic book, Steinbeck describes what he sees as he travels from [[Maine]] to [[Montana]] to California, and from there to [[Texas]] and [[Louisiana]] and back to his home on [[Long Island]]. However, in 2011, after his death, a reporter who had followed ''Travels with Charley''{{'}}s trail using the author's own diaries controverted the book's accuracy, casting Steinbeck's claimed reportage as largely fictionalized, allegations supported by scholars and Steinbeck's son John.

The restored camper truck is on exhibit in the [[National Steinbeck Center]] in Salinas.