ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS
Started in the early 1970s, the Steinbeck Collection oral history project concentrates on interviews about the life and works of John Steinbeck as well as local agricultural and social history of the Salinas Valley. Some of the oral history interviews within the collection include: Joseph Campbell, a world-renown author and friend of Steinbeck; Vincent Colletto, a Monterey fisherman who knew Steinbeck during the 1930s; Peter Ferrante who attended Stanford University with Steinbeck, Marjory Lloyd who knew Steinbeck and his first wife, Carol in Monterey during the 1930s; Carlton Sheffield, a close friend of Steinbeck; Arthur Lotton, who was at Pacific Biological Lab in the 1930s and who knew Ed Ricketts; and Ellwood Graham, an artist and friend of Steinbeck. The Center continues to actively research, conduct, and transcribe oral history interviews.

ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
The National Steinbeck Center Oral History Project actively conducts, transcribes, and preserves oral history interviews.