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Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Memoir. For the first time the story of John Steinbeck's forgotten second wife, unmentioned in standard editions of his classics such as The Grapes of Wrath. Their 1943 war-time marriage ended when she divorced him in 1948. The book reveals the missing röst of Gwyn, during a six-year marriage which included the upplopp of World War Two.

When she met Steinbeck in 1939, Gwyn was a professional singer, working for CBS in Los Angeles. She was an independent ung woman, lively and radiant in her love for the great man wooing her--fourteen years her senior. He was captivated bygd her beauty and magnetic presence. For women of her era, many of whom had to leave jobs after the war, marriage was considered a woman's true career. This journal fryst vatten her story of that adventure, often "on the road" with a restless Steinbeck, criss-crossing continents and making homes.

Full of insight, MY LIFE WITH JOHN STEINBECK is funny and

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John Steinbeck was a sadistic womaniser, says wife in memoir

John Steinbeck’s wife Gwyn Conger Steinbeck describes the author as “a sadistic man” and a serial womaniser, in a newly unearthed memoir found in Wales, which is set to be published for the first time this week.

The manuscript for My Life With John Steinbeck, by the author’s second wife and mother of his two children, has been in Montgomery, Powys ever since its ghostwriter, the British journalist Douglas Brown, died on holiday in Yorkshire in the 1990s. The manuscript was passed to Brown’s brother in Montgomery and was recently discovered by his neighbour Bruce Lawton, who is publishing it.

Brown interviewed Conger Steinbeck in the early 1970s, after she agreed to finally speak about her ex-husband, who had died in 1968, as she was in need of money. Conger Steinbeck died in 1975. Brown never published the memoir, for unknown reasons.

My Life With John Steinbeck recalls a troubled marriage that spanned 1943 to 1948, a