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OverviewA Penguin Classic More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this distinctive collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply engaged in the world around him. In addition to the complete text of Steinbeck's last published book, America and Americans, this volume brings together for the first time more than fifty of Steinbeck's finest essays and journalistic pieces on Salinas, Sag Harbor, Arthur Miller, Woody Guthrie, the Vietnam War and more. This edition is edited by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw and Steinbeck biographer Jackson J. Benson. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Steinbeck , Jackson J. Benson , Susan ShillinglawPublisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Imprint: The Penguin Press Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.306kg ISBN: 9780142437414ISBN 10: 0142437417 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 29 April 2003 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction I Places of the Heart 1 Always Something to Do in Salinas 4 The Golden Handcuff 13 A Primer on the '30s 17 Making of a New Yorker 32 My War with the Ospreys 41 Conversation at Sag Harbor 50 II Engaged Artist 65 Dubious Battle in California 71 The Harvest Gypsies: Squatters' Camps 78 Starvation Under the Orange Trees 83 From Writers Take Sides 88 I Am a Revolutionary 89 Duel Without Pistols 91 The Trial of Arthur Miller 101 Atque Vale 105 Dear Adlai 108 G.O.P. Delegates Have Bigger, Better Badges 110 L'Envoi 112 III Occasional Pieces 117 Then My Arm Glassed Up 125 On Fishing 132 Circus 136 Random Thoughts on Random Dogs 139 ... like captured fireflies 142 The Joan in All of Us 144 A Model T Named ""It"" 147 IV On Writing 151 The Play-Novelette 155 My Short Novels 158 Rationale 161 Critics-from a Writer's Viewpoint 163 Some Random and Randy Thoughts on Books 167 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 172 V Friends 175 From About Ed Ricketts 179 Ernie Pyle 213 Tom Collins 215 Robert Capa 217 Adlai Stevenson 219 Henry Fonda 223 Woody Guthrie 225 VI Journalist Abroad 227 The Soul and Guts of France 233 One American in Paris (fourth piece) 246 One American in Paris (thirteenth piece) 248 Positano 251 Florence: The Explosion of the Chariot 259 I Go Back to Ireland 262 The Ghost of Anthony Daly 270 VII War Correspondent 275 Troopship 282 Waiting 285 Stories of the Blitz 288 Lilli Marlene 291 Bob Hope 293 Vietnam War: No Front, No Rear 296 Action in the Delta 299 Terrorism 304 Puff, the Magic Dragon 307 An Open Letter to Poet Yevtushenko 311 VIII America and Americans 313 Foreword 317 E Pluribus Unum 319 Paradox and Dream 330 Government of the People 339 Created Equal 346 Genus Americanus 354 The Pursuit of Happiness 369 Americans and the Land 377 Americans and the World 383 Americans and the Future 392 Afterword 403 Works Cited 405 Selected Bibliography of Steinbeck's Nonfiction 407 Index 417"ReviewsA feast of good reading. <b>Jay Parini</b>, <b>Los Angeles Times</b> Captures Steinbeck's fierce and unrelenting moral vision, while providing an intriguing glimpse of the writer's life and work. <b>Chicago Tribune</b></p> A feast of good reading. (Jay Parini, Los Angeles Times ) By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A feast of good reading. --Jay Parini, Los Angeles Times Captures Steinbeck's fierce and unrelenting moral vision, while providing an intriguing glimpse of the writer's life and work. --Chicago Tribune Author InformationJohn Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929). After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in The Long Valley (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with Tortilla Flat (1935), stories about Monterey’s paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The Grapes of Wrath won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Early in the 1940s, Steinbeck became a filmmaker with The Forgotten Village (1941) and a serious student of marine biology with Sea of Cortez (1941). He devoted his services to the war, writing Bombs Away (1942) and the controversial play-novelette The Moon is Down (1942).Cannery Row (1945), The Wayward Bus (1948), another experimental drama, Burning Bright(1950), and The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951) preceded publication of the monumental East of Eden (1952), an ambitious saga of the Salinas Valley and his own family’s history. The last decades of his life were spent in New York City and Sag Harbor with his third wife, with whom he traveled widely. Later books include Sweet Thursday (1954), The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957), Once There Was a War (1958), The Winter of Our Discontent (1961),Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962), America and Americans (1966), and the posthumously published Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969), Viva Zapata!(1975), The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976), and Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989). Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968. Today, more than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Jackson J. Benson teaches American Literature at San Diego State University. His biography, The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer, won the PEN USA West award for nonfiction. He lives in La Mesa, California. Susan Shillinglaw is a professor of English San Jose State University. She is the author of On Reading the Grapes of Wrath and Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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