• The life of John Steinbeck
• A sense of place : Steinbeck's early fiction
• In dubious battle
• Of mice and men
• The grapes of wrath
• Sea of Cortez
• Steinbeck at war
• The shorter novels
• East of Eden
• America and Americans : Steinbeck in the 1960s.

John Steinbeck is one of the most popular and important writers in American literature. Novels such as The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden and the journal Travels with Charley convey the core of Steinbeck's work-fiction that is reflective and compassionate. The Nobel prize winner cared deeply about people, and his writing captured the spirit, determination, and willingness of individuals to fight for their rights and the rights of others. His art of caring is critical for today's readers and as a touchstone for our collective future. In Citizen Steinbeck: Giving Voice to the People, Robert McParland explains how the author's work helps readers engage in moral reflection and develop empathy. McParland also looks at the ways educators around the world have used Steinbeck's writings-both fiction and nonfiction-to impart ideals of compassion and social justice. These ideals are weaved into all of Steinbeck's work, including his journalism and theatrical productions. Drawing on these texts-as well as interviews with secondary-level teachers-this book shows how Steinbeck's work prompts readers to think critically and contextually about our values. Demonstrating the power a single author can have on generations of individuals around the world, Citizen Steinbeck enables readers to make sense of both the past and the present through the prism of this literary icon's inspirational work.
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• New Start Big Writing
• Five Layers
• "Stay with the detail."
• Scientist and Writer
• A Journal, the Turtle, and lnterchapters
• Participation
• This "Middlebrow" Book
• Isolatoes and the Greater Whole
• Wrath
• Woman to Woman
• Pictures
• "Loose Aggregations"
• The Salinas Lettuce Strike, 1936
• History on the Outside
• "They's a lot a fellas wanta know what reds is."
• History on the Inside
• Migrants
• "Care like hell."
• Beyond the Joad Niche
• Systemic Sins
• Ma to Tom: "Ever'thing you do is more'n you."
• Ricketts on Grapes
• The Book
• Reactions
• Did the Grapes o/Wrath Help the Migrants?
• The Film .
• "None of it is important or all of it is."

In this compelling biography of a book, Susan Shillinglaw delves into John Steinbeck's classic to explore the cultural, social, political, scientific, and creative impact of The Grapes of Wrath upon first publication, as well as its enduring legacy. First published in April 1939, Steinbeck's National Book Award-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. The story of their struggle remains eerily relevant in today's America and stands as a portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, "in the souls of the people.".
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Carol Henning Steinbeck, writer John Steinbeck's first wife, was his creative anchor, the inspiration for his great work of the 1930s, culminating in <em>The Grapes of Wrath</em>. When they met at Lake Tahoe in 1928, their attachment was immediate, their personalities meshing in creative synergy. Carol was unconventional, artistic, and compelling. During the formative years of Steinbeck's career, when they lived in San Francisco, Pacific Grove, and Los Gatos, their modernist circle included Ed Ricketts, Joseph Campbell, and Lincoln Steffens. In many ways Carol's story is all too familiar: a creative and intelligent woman subsumes her own life and work into those of her husband. Together, they brought forth one of the enduring novels of the twentieth century.
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• Henry Veggian: Introduction Tom Gage: Steinbeck Knew Dad Better Than I Did David A. Laws: "Literary Landmarks" of East of Eden Florian Schwieger: "Mapping the Land of Nod": The Spatial Imagination of John Steinbeck's East of Eden Henry Veggian: Bio-Politics and the Institution of Literature: An Essay on East of Eden, its Critics and its Time Jeremy S. Leatham: Out of Eden: Dualism, Conformity, and Inheritance in Steinbeck's "Big Book" Elisabeth Bayley: Mimesis, Desire and Lack in John Steinbeck's East of Eden Scott Dill: An Image of Social Character: Elia Kazan's East of Eden Gavin Cologne-Brookes: East of Eden County: John Steinbeck, Joyce Carol Oates and the Afterlife of Cathy Trask Danica Cerce: The Status of East of Eden in Slovenia and the Former Yugoslavia Yuji Kami: A Paradoxical World in East of Eden: The Theory of Free Will and the Heritage of Puritanism Bruce Ouderkirk: The Unconventional Morality of East of Eden Alec Gilmore: A Steinbeck Midrash on Genesis 4:7 Contributors Index.
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This volume includes one dozen new and recent essays on John Steinbeck's East of Eden (1952). First commissioned by the late Professor Michael J. Meyer, a renowned Steinbeck scholar, the volume was originally designed to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the novel's publication. The collection contains critical writings from a variety of literary fields. These include the biographical essay, travel essay, essays on varied themes in Steinbeck's works, writings on critical approaches to Steinbeck and also a new essay on Elia Kazan's film adaptation of the novel. This volume is of interest for the Steinbeck scholar, the literary critic and also the casual reader seeking new ways to understand Steinbeck's novel.
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• The 1930s
• The 1940s and the 1950s
• The 1960s and the 1970s
• The 1980s
• The 1990s
• Since 2000
• New essays.

"A timeless tour through John Steinbeck's world, REAL LIFE ON CANNERY ROW highlights the unique individuals and memorable moments that influenced Steinbeck's iconic novel. Characters from the novel are brought to life, showcasing true stories behind fictional events. The book offers essential insight into CANNERY ROW and is a helpful companion piece for Steinbeck students and fans"--Provided by publisher.

This work includes 1200 alphabetically arranged entries that detail Steinbeck's life and writings. It provides roughly 1200 alphabetically arranged entries by more than 40 expert contributors; discusses Steinbeck's major works and characters; includes information about Steinbeck's family members and contemporaries; and, covers various special topics related to his life and writings. It is accessible to school students, undergraduates, and general readers. Known for his searing social criticism, John Steinbeck is one of the most popular and influential American writers of the 20th century. His works are read and studied at all levels and have been made into films. And though critics and scholars initially found fault with his enormously popular works, he is now widely recognised as a master of his craft. This encyclopedia provides an extensive overview of Steinbeck's life and career and is accessible to school students, undergraduates, and general readers. The work presents some 1200 alphabetically arranged entries by more than 40 expert contributors. These entries cover Steinbeck's works, major characters, family and contemporaries, influences, and a range of special topics. The entries include: Henry Adams, Saul Bellow, "Discourse", "East of Eden", William Faulkner, Hollywood, Granpa Joad, Carl Jung, Herman Melville, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, "Of Mice and Men", Pacific Biological Laboratory, Poetry, Short Story Cycle, Tagus Ranch, and many more. Many of the entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.
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• Steinbeck's California: The Valley of the World-- Salinas: A Remembered Symphony-- Beyond Salinas: Salad Bowl of the World-- Moving Around: A Restless Decade-- Monterey Peninsula: Circle of Enchantment-- Pacific Grove: The Writer's Retreat-- New Monterey: Water-Gazers-- Bohemian Carmel: Modernism in the West-- Los Gatos: A Place to Write-- Beyond California: The Lure of Mexico-- Timeline-- Index.
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This part art book, part biography, and part travel guide offers insight into how landscapes and townscapes influenced John Steinbeck's creative process and how, in turn, his legacy has influenced modern California. Various types of readers will appreciate the information in this guide - literary pilgrims will learn more about the state featured so prominently in Steinbeck's work, tourists can visit the same buildings that he lived in and wrote about, and historians will appreciate the engrossing perspective on daily life in early 20th-century California. Offering an entirely new perspective on Steinbeck and the people and places that he brought to life in his writing, readers will find delight in this depiction of the symbiotic relationship between an author and his favorite places.
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• John Steinbeck's lower-case utopia / Patrick K. Dooley
• John Steinbeck and the morality of roles / Joseph Allegretti
• John Steinbeck / John H. Timmerman
• "I want to make 'em happy" / John J. Han
• The existential vacuum and Ethan Allen Hawley / Barbara A. Heavilin
• Moral experience in Of Mice and Men / Richard E. Hart
• Of death, life, and virtue in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath / Allene M. Parker
• Judging Elisa Allen / Terry Gorton
• The power of strange faces / Michael D. Hansen
• The emotional content of cruelty / Stephen K. George
• "No sanctuary" / Sarah Appleton Aguiar
• Business, sex, and ethics in The Wayward Bus / Joseph Allegretti
• "The disintegration of a man" / Stephen K. George.

Thirteen essays, written by experts both within philosophy and Steinbeck studies, examine almost all of Steinbeck's major works. Included in the compilation are five general essays examining Steinbeck's own moral philosophy and eight specific essays analyzing the ethics of various major works.
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• Introduction-- Cup of Gold-- The Pastures of Heaven-- To A God Unknown-- Tortilla Flat-- In Dubious Battle-- Of Mice and Men (the novel)-- The Red Pony-- Of Mice and Men (the play)-- The Long Valley-- The Grapes of Wrath-- The Forgotten Village-- Sea of Cortez-- The Moon is Down (the novel)-- The Moon is Down (the play)-- Bombs Away-- Cannery Row-- The Wayward Bus-- The Pearl-- A Russian Journal-- Burning Bright (the novel)-- Burning Bright (the play)-- The Log from the Sea of Cortez-- East of Eden-- Sweet Thursday-- The Short Reign of Pippin IV-- Once There Was a War-- The Winter of our Discontent-- Travels with Charley in Search of America-- America and Americans-- Journal of a novel: The East of Eden Letters-- The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights-- Working Days.
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This volume is the first to collect the critical responses of Steinbeck's generation to his many fiction and non-fiction works, as they appeared from the late 1920s onwards. The articles trace the record of Steinbeck's progress through the 1930s and go on to reflect Steinbeck's steady series of achievements through the 1960s, including his attainment of the Nobel Prize in 1967. These articles offer a means of seeing Steinbeck's writings as they were perceived by his contemporaries, whose task it was first to evaluate and interpret them for an ever-growing readership.
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