Florence Pugh and Zoe Kazan, the star and screenwriter (respectively) of Netflix’s “East of Eden,” a fresh take on John Steinbeck’s classic 1952 novel, recently came to the Library to get a look at some original Steinbeck material. There were signed first editions of “Eden,” manuscript pages from “The Grapes of Wrath” and a dozen or so books from the 19th and early 20th centuries that documented the land and the people of the Salinas Valley, the primary setting of “Eden,” “Of Mice and Men” and other Steinbeck works. Steinbeck considered "Eden" to be his career-defining work. The journal he kept during the writing of the book, as explained here, shows why.