Cannery Row

“Cannery Row” is a novel written by the famous American author John Steinbeck and published in 1945. The novel became so successful that the area that Cannery Row was based on in Monterey California was later renamed Cannery Row in it honors. The novel was adapted into a film in 1982 starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger and a stage adaptation in 1994 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the book’s publishing.It has been performed on stage many more times and recently as 2014.