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Steinbeck: Life in Letters

Steinbeck: Life in Letters

by JohnSteinbeck (Author), ElaineSteinbeck (Editor), RobertWallsten (Editor)

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    Paperback 1994

    $204.48
Synopsis

Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck was a prolific correspondent, and this collection of around 850 letters to friends, family, his editor and a diverse circle of well-known and influential public figures gives an insight into the raw creative processes of one of the most naturally-gifted and hard-working writing minds of this century.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 919
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Minerva
Published: 14 Mar 1994
ISBN 10: 0749397772
ISBN 13: 9780749397777
Book Overview: Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962

Author Bio
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, in 17 February 1902. After studying English at Stanford University, he held several jobs including working as a hod-carrier, apprentice painter, laboratory assistant, ranch hand, fruit-picker, construction worker at Madison Square Gardens, New York, and reporter for the New York American. In 1935 he became a full-time writer and was a special writer for the United States Army Air Force during World War II. Among his most renowned works are Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. In 1926 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature as a mark of his outstanding contribution to literature, his unquestionable popularity and his versatility. In his speech accepting the Nobel Prize, Steinbeck gave his view of authorship: 'The ancient omission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our may grevious faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement. Furthermore, the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit for gallantry in defeat - for courage, compassion and love.' John Steinbeck died on 20th December 1968.