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Title
John Steinbeck : a literary life / Linda Wagner-Martin.
ISBN
9781137553829 (electronic book)
1137553820 (electronic book)
9781137553812
1137553812
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
PS3537.T3234
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.52
Summary
This book aims to both describe and analyze the way Steinbeck learned the writing craft. It begins with his immersion in the short story, some years after he stopped attending Stanford University. Aside from a weak first novel, his professional writing career began with the publication in 1932 of The Pastures of Heaven, stories set in the Salinas Valley and dedicated to his parents. From that book he wrote truly commanding stories such as The Red Pony. Intermixed with Steinbeck’s journalism about California’s labor difficulties, his writing skill led to his 1930 masterpieces, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, and The Grapes of Wrath. The latter novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940, led eventually to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He continued producing such wide-ranging works as The Pearl, East of Eden, The Winter of Our Discontent, and Travels with Charley up to just a few months before his death in 1968. .
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 11, 2017).
Series
Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9781137553812
John Steinbeck; Preface; Note; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations of Steinbeck's works used within this study; 1 Steinbeck and the Short Story; Notes; 2 Tortilla Flat, the Book of the Others; Notes; 3 Journalism v. Fiction; Notes; 4 The Grapes of Wrath; Notes; 5 The Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research; Note; 6 World War II; Notes; 7 Cannery Row and The Pearl; Notes; 8 The Ed Ricketts Narratives; Notes; 9 East of Eden and the 1950s; Notes; 10 The Winter of Our Discontent; Notes; 11 Travels with Charley; Notes; 12 The Nobel Prize for Literature; Notes; Bibliography
