Edward F. Ricketts authored several books, among them "Between Pacific Tides (1939), now in its fifth, revised edition and still regarded as the definitive ecological handbook on the California littoral. Katharine A. Rodger is editor of "Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts (2002). Susan F. Beegel, editor of "The Hemingway Review, coedited "Steinbeck and the Environment (1997).