Sheffield, Steinbeck's roommate at Stanford, saved his many letters from then and has this summary: The Google search engine has a few details on the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author's time in Tahoe, although the facts are sometimes conflicting. The family has no pictures of the author. To preserve its privacy, the Ebright family does not allow visits to or photographs of the Steinbeck cabin. He didn't bust our tails on the studying."Įbright cannot give a detailed time line of Steinbeck's stay, but knows he spent at least one winter as caretaker and a couple summers as tutor and handyman. "We got along with him so he must not have been a very sincere tutor. He had other things on his mind," Ebright recalls. Steinbeck "wasn't much into doing the work around here. He remembers little of Steinbeck, but does know the Stanford dropout didn't take his job too seriously. Ebright still lives part time at the secluded property. It had one wall, no running water, electricity, no way to get anywhere except by boat or walking or by snowshoe in the winter," Ebright, 84, recalls.Įbright and his brother are the grandsons of the Brighams, who owned the estate. "He lived in a small cabin, very primitive. Harold Ebright was 7 when Steinbeck was his summer tutor at Cascade Estates. The Steinbeck Center in Salinas confirmed he'd been there, but refers you to a professor for more accurate information. The Lake Tahoe Historical Society knows he worked as a caretaker at Cascade Estates and was a bus driver at Fallen Leaf Lake, but doesn't have details. It's hard to find any evidence of Steinbeck in Tahoe. Although John Steinbeck moved to Lake Tahoe in 1925 at age 23, wrote many letters and finished his first novel there, none of his literary works reflect the area.
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