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 ...
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 ...
John Steinbeck, the author of "The Grapes of Wrath," "Of Mice and Men" and "East of Eden," crafted something very different with the unpublished novel, the professor said. Bettmann Archive/Getty ...
BOSTON — A heartfelt letter written by author John Steinbeck offering paternal advice to his teenage son who was experiencing love for the first time has sold at auction for more than $32,000. The two ...
A scholar of American literature at Stanford says it’s worth publishing. The agents representing the Steinbeck estate strongly disagree. By Heather Murphy Nine years before John Steinbeck published ...
“There’s an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea ...
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