John Steinbeck A Literary Life 1st Edition by Linda Wagner Martin ISBN 1137553820 9781137553829

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ISBN 10: 1137553820 
ISBN 13: 9781137553829
Author: Linda Wagner Martin

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.  

John Steinbeck A Literary Life 1st Table of contents:

1 Steinbeck and the Short Story
2 Tortilla Flat, the Book of the Others
3 Journalism v. Fiction
4 The Grapes of Wrath
5 The Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
6 World War II
7 Cannery Row and The Pearl
8 The Ed Ricketts Narratives
9 East of Eden and the 1950s
10 The Winter of Our Discontent
11 Travels with Charley
12 The Nobel Prize for Literature

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