Steinbeck laughed off that comment in testimony, saying, "Oh, that was silly." Defense attorney Matthew Berger noted that Kaffaga was never adopted by John Steinbeck and was not one of his heirs.

John Steinbeck’s Stepdaughter Awarded $13 Million in Court Battle Over Film Rights. ... he was previously associate editor at Deadline from 2015-2017, ...

In a summary judgment ruling last month, a judge also found that Thom and Gail Steinbeck had slandered the title to several more of the famous author's works. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor ...

A federal jury awarded John Steinbeck’s stepdaughter more than $13 million in a lawsuit claiming the author’s son and daughter-in-law impeded film adaptations of his classic works. Jurors in ...

John Steinbeck's heirs claim a literary agency is wrongly cutting them out of negotiations over movie deals for the late Nobel Prize-winning author's books.

On the centenary of the author's birth, the Steinbeck film legacy is alive and well on video and DVD, though it's not complete. "The Forgotten Village," a 1941 documentary based on his original ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sour grapes have left some of the classic works of John Steinbeck in a dust bowl. The writer's stepdaughter told jurors in federal court Tuesday that film remakes of "The ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sour grapes have left some of the classic works of John Steinbeck in a dust bowl. The writer's stepdaughter told jurors in federal court Tuesday that film remakes of "The Grapes of ...