Question: Terry Pindell's American travelogues such as "Making Tracks" have been compared with "Travels With Charley" by which iconic American author?
Context: Making Tracks is an Asian American musical theater production by Second Generation, a New York-based theater company, with music by Woody Pak, lyrics by Brian Yorkey, and concept and book by Welly Yang. Charles Elliot "Charley" Rosen (born January 18, 1941) is an American author and former basketball coach.  From 1983–1986, he was an assistant to Phil Jackson with the Albany Patroons of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets is a compilation album by American rock singer–songwriter Bob Seger.  The double-disc album was released on November 21, 2011 and contains 26 remastered tracks from throughout Seger's career, which spans more than four decades.  Included are the original mono version of "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man", Seger's first hit with The Bob Seger System from 1968, the classic Christmas song "The Little Drummer Boy" from 1987's "A Very Special Christmas", which makes its first appearance on a Seger album, and previously unreleased cover versions of Tom Waits' "Downtown Train" and Little Richard's "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey (Going Back to Birmingham)."  There is also a Walmart exclusive edition that includes the bonus track "Living Inside My Heart," a song from the soundtrack of the 1986 film "About Last Night...", which has also never before been released on any Bob Seger album.  Two songs on this compilation album are edited compared to the original releases: "We've Got Tonight" is the single edit, which is about one minute shorter than the album version, and "Katmandu" is a newly edited version which omits the second verse, making the song also about one minute shorter compared to the original album version.  In the US it was certified gold and platinum in June 2013 by the RIAA. Felicity Pulman (born 1945) is an Australian author with an interest in crime, history and fantasy.  Her novels "Ghost Boy", the "Shalott trilogy" and A Ring Through Time reflect her fascination with such possibilities as knowledge travelling through time, ghosts, parallel realities and reincarnation.  Her medieval crime series for older teenagers, "The Janna Mysteries", indulges her love of crime, history, plants and herbal healing.  Note: The Janna Mysteries have now been repackaged as The Janna Chronicles, published by Momentum/Pan Macmillan Australia.  Her first novel for adults, titled I, Morgana, a retelling of the 'bad girl' of Arthurian legend, has also been published by Momentum/Pan Macmillan, as has the sequel: The Once and Future Camelot, written while Felicity spent several months on a writer's fellowship in the UK in 2015.  These novels are now available as ebooks from any ebook retailer; print versions are available through Pan Macmillan Australia.  Her short stories for adults have won several awards.  Many have also been published, as have Felicity's numerous articles on various topics including writing and the creative process.  Felicity is a popular presenter at schools, conferences and writers festivals, where she talks about her work and/or gives workshops in a variety of genres for students and budding authors.  You'll find more about Felicity and her novels on her website: www.felicitypulman.com.au.  Pulman has also been involved in the "Making Tracks" series for students. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert.  The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels.  The book remained on "The New York Times" Best Seller list for 187 weeks.  The movie rights for the memoir were purchased by Columbia Pictures.  The film version, which stars Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, was released in theaters on August 13, 2010. Susan Arnold Elston Wallace (December 25, 1830 – October 1, 1907) was an American author and poet from Crawfordsville, Indiana.  In addition to writing travel articles for several American magazines and newspapers, Wallace published six books, five of which contain collected essays from her travels in the New Mexico Territory, Europe, and the Middle East in the 1880s: "The Land of the Pueblos" (1888), "The Storied Sea" (1883), "The Repose in Egypt: A Medley" (1888), "Along the Bosphorus, and Other Sketches" (1898), and "The City of the King: What the Child Jesus Saw and Heard" (1903).  She was also the wife of Lew Wallace, a lawyer, American Civil War general, politician, and diplomat.  Susan completed the manuscript of Lew Wallace's two-volume autobiography following his death in 1905, with the assistance of Mary Hannah Krout, another Crawfordsville author.  Wallace died in Crawfordsville in 1907. Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck.  It depicts a 1960 road trip around the United States made by Steinbeck, in the company of his standard poodle, Charley.  Steinbeck wrote that he was moved by a desire to see his country on a personal level, since he made his living writing about it.  He wrote of having many questions going into his journey, the main one being, "What are Americans like today?"  However, he found that he had concerns about much of the "new America" he witnessed. Terry Pindell is an American travel writer known primarily for three North American 'rail odysseys', through the USA, Canada and Mexico, each of which became the subject of a travel book.  He has also written a book on migration within the United States.  The "Toledo Blade" said of his first book, "Making Tracks": "Not since John Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley" has anyone put together a better story about America on the road." Charlie Kadado is a Lebanese American author and journalist.  He is the author of the award-winning novel, ""Sacrifice: Reporting in Kabul,"" a book that follows the story of a fictional news reporter who travels to Afghanistan to report on the war.  Kadado was inspired to write the novel after following the story of ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff.  Kadado was one of the nation's youngest journalists. Darynda Jones is the American author of the "Charley Davidson" series of paranormal romantic thrillers and a young adult series called The Darklight Trilogy.  She lives in New Mexico.
Answer: John Steinbeck