There was an interesting article in the NY Times about Steinbeck's "Travel's with Charlie in Search of America." A former newspaperman, Bill Steigerwald, decided to make the "supposed" 10,000 mile journey from Long Island to Maine to California, and back, that Steinbeck took in 1960. He is convinced that Steinbeck misrepresented dates and times. As the NY Times says:

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Steinbeck insisted his book was reality-based. He aimed to “tell the small diagnostic truths which are the foundations of the larger truth.” Books labeled “nonfiction” should not break faith with readers. Not now, and not in 1962, the year “Travels With Charley” came out and Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature.