Research Catalog

Title

John Steinbeck : a documentary volume / edited by Luchen Li.

Publication

Farmington Hills, MI : Thomson Gale, ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Li, Luchen.

Description

xxviii, 447 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.

Series Statement

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 309

Uniform Title

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 309.

Subjects

• Novelists, American
• 1900-1999
• Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
• Ouvrages de référence
• Reference works
• Biographies
• Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography

Genre/Form

• Reference works.
• Biographies.
• Ouvrages de référence.

Note

• "A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Education -- Cup of gold (1929) -- To a god unknown (1933) -- The pastures of heaven (1932) and To a god unknown (1933) -- Tortilla Flat (1935) and In dubious battle (1936) -- A prize for Tortilla Flat (1935) -- In dubious battle (1936) -- Of mice and men (1937) : the novel -- The red pony (1937) -- Of mice and men : the play -- The long valley (1938) -- The grapes of wrath (1939) -- Steinbeck and the president -- The forgotten village (1941) -- Sea of Cortez (1941) -- The moon is down (1942) -- Bombs away (1942) -- War correspondent -- Cannery row (1945) -- Planning for Viva Zapata! (1952) -- Steinbeck and World War II -- End of a marriage -- Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts -- The wayward bus (1947) -- The pearl (1947) -- A Russian journal (1948) -- Burning bright (1950) -- The log from the Sea of Cortez (1951) -- East of Eden (1952) -- Writing for Collier's -- Sweet Thursday (1954) -- Steinbeck on other writers -- Steinbeck on writing -- The short reign of Pippin IV (1957) -- Steinbeck and Sir Thomas Malory's Le morte darthur (1485) -- The public Steinbeck -- The winter of our discontent (1961) -- Travels with Charley (1962) -- Nobel prize -- Cultural ambassador -- Death of John F. Kennedy -- Steinbeck and Lyndon B. Johnson -- Steinbeck and the Vietnam War -- America and Americans (1966) -- Facing the end -- Journal of a novel (1969) -- The acts of King Arthur and his noble knights (1976) -- Working days (1989) -- Stage and screen adaptations -- Critical assessments -- Steinbeck centennial.

ISBN

• 078768127X
• 9780787681272

LCCN

2005000500

OCLC

• ocm57405438
• 57405438
• SCSB-1354816

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library