John Steinbeck hated success. Though he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Nobel Prize for literature, though he earned a fortune from his books and the movies inspired by them, the American ...
Of Souder and Steinbeck: Minnesota author’s John Steinbeck biography praised by scholars and critics
“Mad at the World” seems, at first glance, an odd title for a book. But William Souder believes it conveys the personality and work of John Steinbeck, who brought social realism to the forefront in ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of ...
John Steinbeck’s fiction is often held up as an exemplar of politically engaged art, but William Souder’s concise new biography, “Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck,” argues persuasively that ...
CRITICS have had a holiday detecting exotic symbolisms in John Steinbeck’s work. Perhaps they are there. He would be the last man to affirm or to deny it. To inquirers for biographical data he has ...
https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.v • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.v Copy URL I want to thank Robert DeMott and Susan ...
John Steinbeck entered the literary stratosphere by way of his native Central California, through stories that lionized the downtrodden and often unseen. “The Grapes of Wrath,” his account of the ...
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