“Mad at the World” seems, at first glance, an odd title for a book. But William Souder believes it conveys the personality and work of John Steinbeck, who brought social realism to the forefront in ...

John Steinbeck hated success. Though he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Nobel Prize for literature, though he earned a fortune from his books and the movies inspired by them, the American ...

John Steinbeck’s fiction is often held up as an exemplar of politically engaged art, but William Souder’s concise new biography, “Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck,” argues persuasively that ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0145 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0145 Copy URL Albee, George. Benson Biography Archives ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.18.2.0201 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/steinbeckreview.18.2.0201 Copy URL Abstract News of Steinbeck activities in ...

CRITICS have had a holiday detecting exotic symbolisms in John Steinbeck’s work. Perhaps they are there. He would be the last man to affirm or to deny it. To inquirers for biographical data he has ...