There’s the John Steinbeck most Californians know, the bard of the Salinas Valley and Cannery Row, the chronicler of the common man’s plight, the acclaimed author of such towering works as “The Grapes ...
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 ...