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05/04/2005
Libraries in Steinbeck's hometown under threat
Over one hundred supporters turned out at the weekend to help save the libraries in American author John Steinbeck's hometown of Salinas, California.
A 24-hour "read-in" was held to protest against the city authorities' decision to close all three public libraries.
Salinas is the setting of Steinbeck's 1952 novel East of Eden and the author was born in the city in 1902.
Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He died in 1968.
The City Council are facing record deficits and voted in December to close the libraries.
If they go ahead with their threatened action, Salinas, which has a blue-collar population of 150,000, will become the largest US city without such a facility.
Read the Bibliofemme review of East of Eden.
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