John Steinbeck: A Literary Life

by Linda Wagner-Martin

Book Overview

This book aims to both describe and analyze the way Steinbeck learned the writing craft. It begins with his immersion in the short story, some years after he stopped attending Stanford University. Aside from a weak first novel, his professional writing career began with the publication in 1932 of The Pastures of Heaven, stories set in the Salinas Valley and dedicated to his parents. From that book he wrote truly commanding stories such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134971657X
• ISBN13: 9781349716579
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"