John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography
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ISBN: 014014417X / Publisher: Penguin Books, December 1990
Recounts the life of the American writer, including his campaigns for the rights of the "little people", his stand on the Vietnam War, his Hollywood film scripts, and his winning of the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Drawing on John Steinbeck's papers and photographs, and scores of interviews, Jackson J. Benson explores the influences that contributed to Steinbeck's archetypal sense of American culture and his controversial concerns. An in-depth study of the shy, private individual behind many American classics.
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