Steinbeck: The Untold Stories

In addition to being a writer of fiction and dealer in art, Steve Hauk is a playwright, documentary screenwriter, and journalist. His plays include A Mild Concussion - the Rapid Rise and Long Fall of an Idealistic Computer Genius, based on the true story of an exploited figure in the computer world, and The Floating Hat, on the relationship of Charlie Chaplin and the deaf artist Granville Redmond. Also, Fortune’s Way, or Notes on Art for Catholics (and Others), Reflections of an American Mossad, and recently completed, The Cottages - Scenes from Lives Interrupted. Narrated by the late Jack Lemmon, the films he wrote - Time Captured in Paintings: The Monterey Legacy and The Roots of California Photography: The Monterey Legacy - were winners of CINE Golden Eagles, a national honor for documentary filmmaking out of Washington, D.C. As a journalist he has interviewed figures as diverse as Muhammad Ali, Paul Newman, Dame Judith Anderson, and many people who knew and were friends of John Steinbeck. With his wife Nancy he founded the gallery Hauk Fine Arts in Pacific Grove, California. In 1998 he co-curated with Patricia Leach the inaugural art exhibition at the National Steinbeck Center, This Side of Eden - Images of Steinbeck’s California.