Nancy Ricketts, the daughter of John Steinbeck’s collaborator and confidant Ed Ricketts, recalls growing up under Steinbeck’s shadow in pre-World War II Pacific Grove and Monterey in a recently published memoir, Becoming Myself: The Story of a Turbulent Youth. A professional archivist and confirmed Episcopalian (like Steinbeck and her father), she is the author of A Brief History of St. Peter’s-By-the-Sea, an historic Episcopal church in Sitka, Alaska, where she makes her home. Listen to her interview with KCAW News in Sitka, recorded on September 3, 2020, to learn more. (Nancy Ricketts will participate via video in the closing session of “Cannery Row Days”—a six-week series in celebration of Steinbeck, Ricketts, and the Cannery Row they created, on November 7, 2020.)

Archive photo of Nancy Ricketts courtesy Raven Radio Foundation.