Cup of Gold Author:John Steinbeck This was the life of a buccaneer in the days when pirates plundered the Spanish Main. This is the romantic, swashbuckling, bloodthirsty life that Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck has chosen to write about in Cup of Gold, his only historical novel. The pirate Henry Morgan ruled the high seas with daring deeds that struck terror into the ... more »hearts of Imperial Spain. No ship was safe while he lived.« less