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Steinbeck Reconsidered.
America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction, by John Steinbeck, edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Jackson J. Benson (Viking, 400 pp., $27.95)
John Steinbeck might have been the last writer of a generation for whom being an American seemed in itself a special thing -- and being an American writer an extraordinary thing. Having lit out in the world just after the "Lost Generation," he later wrote that his ragged group should have been called "the Unfortunate Generation because we didn't have a Generation, nor the sense to invent one." They were destined to be bent more by the want of the Thirties than by the bounty of the Twenties. But in return Steinbeck felt the ...
- John Steinbeck
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1996 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1996 John Steinbeck John Steinbeck captured the desperation and yearnings of Depression...Winners. American literature. Steinbeck, John. John Steinbeck. headshot writers. authors. Pulitzer Prize Winners...
- John Steinbeck Centennial Celebration to Include Over 175 Programs In 39 States.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 6, 2001 700+ words
...Pulitzer-Prize winning author John Steinbeck would have turned 100 in February...events from coast to coast, the John Steinbeck Centennial will fan out across...prnh/20011206/NYFNSI09 ) John Steinbeck's legacy in literature, film...
- Works of John Steinbeck: Steinbeck's Popular Reputation
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Steinbeck, John January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Reputation The fact that the works of John Steinbeck have sold enormously and continuously...unworthy of "serious" attention. John Steinbeck, however, who was awarded the...his public. And if the work of John Steinbeck has often been depreciated without...
- Works of John Steinbeck: Critical Commentary, Essay Questions
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Steinbeck, John January 1, 1963 700+ words
...important biographical facts about John Steinbeck; we also became acquainted with...and critic, wrote an essay, "John Steinbeck," in which he discussed Of Mice...S. Kennedy, in an essay. "John Steinbeck, Life Affirmed and Dissolved...
- Monterey swallows its 'Grapes of Wrath,' honors John Steinbeck. (Originated...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Cone, Tracie March 1, 1994 700+ words
...sardine-canning days when friend John Steinbeck visited Doc's lab to absorb...dollars to the area. March is John Steinbeck Month, a private museum is reopening...a great deal of insight.'' John Steinbeck, born in 1902, spent many years...
- Marking the Province's part in the life of author Steinbeck; John Steinbeck,...
- Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) March 26, 2002 700+ words
...marks 100 years since the birth of John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath...life in Monterey County during John Steinbeck's time. Compelling images of...Browne was presented with the John Steinbeck Award. Also recently, there...
- John Steinbeck: A Biography.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 16, 1994 700+ words
...only 66 when he died in 1968 yet John Steinbeck had lived at least ten years too...despise. As Jay Parini recalls, Steinbeck was once defiantly unsnobbish...deep, hard, long and well. The John Steinbeck he describes is a flawed man...
- The ties that bind: Cesar Chavez and John Steinbeck.(World)
- Magazine article from: Catholic New Times Grossman, Marc May 18, 2003 700+ words
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is more than...history are sometimes linked, so are John Steinbeck and Cesar Chavez. Communities across...humanity have not. That is what both John Steinbeck and Cesar Chavez affirmed, each in...
