Oct 17, 2019 · John Steinbeck was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and the author of Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. Steinbeck dropped out of college and worked as a...
Jay Parini is a noted poet, novelist and literary biographer of such literary luminaries as William Faulkner and Robert Frost. His book on Steinbeck is well written for a popular readership. If you read one general biograpy on the life of Steinbeck this is the one.
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- Jay Parini
Clearly the definitive biography of John Steinbeck. A gargantuan commitment to scholarship that stretches through some 1,100 pages of small type. It becomes a reader's longtime project to wade through, but Benson's observations frequent provide enlightenment.
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- Jackson J. Benson
- Jackson J. Benson
Jay Parini is a noted poet, novelist and literary biographer of such literary luminaries as William Faulkner and Robert Frost. His book on Steinbeck is well written for a popular readership. If you read one general biograpy on the life of Steinbeck this is the one.
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In some senses, the book is also a social history of the US in the first 2/3 of the 20th century, as it traces Steinbeck's relationship with his favourite subject, the American people. The Steinbeck of Parini’s biography is the Steinbeck I imagine from the relatively few of
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Dec 16, 2020 · John Steinbeck, in full John Ernst Steinbeck, (born February 27, 1902, Salinas, California, U.S.—died December 20, 1968, New York, New York), American novelist, best known for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression decade and aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farmworkers.
Useful biography of John Steinbeck. Somewhat heavy on psychological analysis and thin on commentary on Steinbeck's writings. Clearly heavily reliant on Jackson Benson's earlier biography, but useful information from interviews of Steinbeck's sister Beth and a limited number of his acquaintances, along with study of several of his collections of letters and Robert Demott"s editing of "Working ...
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John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (/ ˈ s t aɪ n b ɛ k /; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."
- Thomas, John
- Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), East of Eden (1952)
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1940), Nobel Prize in Literature (1962)
- Novelist, short story writer, war correspondent
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