Transcript: Profile: Colorful world of Cannery Row

BOB EDWARDS
Morning Edition (NPR)
05-07-2003
Profile: Colorful world of Cannery Row

Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM

BOB EDWARDS, host:

Fifty-five years ago, the best friend of novelist John Steinbeck was hit by a train after his Buick stalled on the tracks near Cannery Row. At his death, Ed Ricketts was something of a celebrity. Steinbeck had cast Ricketts as the fictional Doc in his best-selling novel. Tomorrow, NPR's Renee Montagne tells the tale of the real-life Doc of Cannery Row. Today, she recalls one of American fiction's most famous locales.

RENEE MONTAGNE reporting:

John Steinbeck began his story this way: `Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a ...

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