Novelist, Playwright (27-Feb-1902 — 20-Dec-1968)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Jackson J. Benson. The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer. The Viking Press. 1984.

Keith Ferrell. John Steinbeck: The Voice of the Land. New York: M. Evans & Co.. 1986.

Maxwell Geismar. Writers in Crisis: The American Novel, 1925-1940: Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1960. 308pp.

Jay Parini. John Steinbeck: A Biography. New York: Henry Holt & Company. 1995.

John Steinbeck IV: with Nancy Sommer. The Other Side of Eden: Life with John Steinbeck. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. 2000. 360pp.

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

6. Wikipedia [link]

7. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

8. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

9. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.1056)

10. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.726)

11. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.670)

12. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1392)

13. Webster's American Biographies (p.980)

14. Penguin Companion to the Arts in the Twentieth Century (p.182)

15. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.227)

16. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.1334)

17. Twentieth Century Authors (p.1338)

18. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.722)

19. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.979)

20. Public Intellectuals: A Study in Decline (p.204)

21. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.693)

22. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.465)

23. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.820)

24. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.4, p.522)

25. Biographical Dictionary of the Left (vol.4, pp.602-06)

26. Obituaries from the Times 1961-1970 (p.756)

27. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.14)

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