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The author was supposed to have been the star’s escort, but the host arranged for him to meet another actress after Gardner begged off. Steinbeck met his next and final wife, Elaine, when Ava Gardner flaked on a Carmel dinner party invitation in 1950. Their marriage was not lengthy, but it did produce Steinbeck’s only children, John Steinbeck IV and Thomas Steinbeck. She was very young, very beautiful and working on the fringes of Hollywood. He was 38, still married to his first wife and hiding out in the Garden of Allah.

He met his second wife, Gwyndolyn Conger, during the “Grapes of Wrath” publicity blitz in 1939.

Some quick background: Steinbeck had two sons and three wives. Suffice it to say that it’s been a battle over control that has largely pitted Steinbeck’s widow against his children from a previous wife. “This ‘suit has, in course of time, become so complicated, that … no two … lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises.”

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