Olive hamilton steinbeck biography

Olive Hamilton became a teacher. That meant that she left home at fifteen and went to live in Salinas, where she could go to secondary school.

John Steinbeck’s mother, Olive Blanche Hamilton, was born December 11, , presumably on the Hamilton property that was once part of the Rancho Santa Teresa Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County.

She graduated from Salinas High School in , one of thirteen girls to graduate that year.

In East of Eden, Steinbeck wrote his character, Olive Hamilton, had left the family home in King City at fifteen, boarding with a family in Salinas, in order to attend a secondary school.

A review of Samuel Hamilton’s timeline allows one to recognize that Olive had no reason to leave the home in King City to board with a family in Salinas, as her family still lived in Salinas. This verification with primary references, of course, calls into question the historical validity of comments presented by Stei