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Travels With Charley was published by the Viking Press in mid-1962, several months before Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The book reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list (Non-Fiction) on October 21, 1962, where it stayed for one week, being replaced by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring on October 28.
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