John Steinbeck: A Literary Life

Preface.- Chapter One: Steinbeck and the Short Story.- Chapter Two: Tortilla Flat, The Book of the Others.- Chapter Three: Journalism v Fiction.- Chapter Four: The Grapes of Wrath.- Chapter Five: The Sea of Cortez, A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research.- Chapter Six: World War II.- Chapter Seven: Cannery Row and The Pearl.- Chapter Eight: The Ed Ricketts Narratives.- Chapter Nine: East of Eden and the 1950s.- Chapter Ten: The Winter of Our Discontent.- Chapter Eleven: Travels with Charley In Search of America.- Chapter Twelve: The Nobel Prize for Literature.- Index


Author: Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/08/2019
Pages: 183
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9781349716579
ISBN10: 134971657X
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century
- Biography & Autobiography | General

About the Author
Linda Wagner-Martin was awarded the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Service to American Literature in 2011. She has published more than sixty books about American writers, including influential literary biographies on Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and others. She taught at Wayne State University, Michigan State University, and The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. In the Literary Lives series, she has published works on Ernest Hemingway, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath and Toni Morrison.