Elaine Steinbeck poses in front of a painting of her late husband John in the library/study of her New York city apartment May 7, 1998. Samuel Pincus, the literary agent for Steinbeck's works and a friend of Elaine Steinbeck, said she died Sunday, April 28, 2003 at New York Hospital following a long illness. She was 88. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)