Elaine Anderson Steinbeck with husband Zachary, who had signed a seven-year contract with Warner Brothers. They divorced in December 1950. Within a week of her divorce from Zachary Scott, Elaine married John Steinbeck on December 28, 1950. They remained married until his death on December 20, 1968. Anderson died of natural causes on April 27, 2003 in Manhattan, aged 88. She was buried near John Steinbeck in the Garden of Memories Memorial Park in Salinas, California. Anderson is said to have made uncredited appearances in two 1944 B-movies: "A Night of Adventure", and "Seven Days Ashore" ("girl in band"). Elaine Anderson Steinbeck Elaine
John Steinbeck Award Grapes of Wrath" and captures the writer's enduring legacy as an engaged and socially aware artist. From the 1930s on Steinbeck wrote about "the people," his heart open to the longing, loneliness, despair and triumph of those on the edges. Americans were his people, and his last book, "America and Americans" (1966) expresses his enduring love for a democratic nation. Thomas Steinbeck wrote that the awardee is a "planetary patriot," which means, a person who, in keeping with Maurice Steinbeck's understanding of the highest aspirations of an artist, "stands up against the stones of condemnation, and speaks for those who