More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this distinctive collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply engaged in the world around him. In addition to the complete text of Steinbeck's last published book, America and Americans, this volume brings together for the first time more than fifty of Steinbeck's finest essays and journalistic pieces on Salinas, Sag Harbor, Arthur Miller, Woody...
More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist wh...
"The Grapes of Wrath" is generally considered Steinbeck's masterpiece, but the short novel was the form he most frequently turned to and most consciously theorized about, and with constant experimentation he made the form his own. Much of the best--and the worst--of his writing appears in his short novels. This collection reviews what has been categorized as the "good" and the "bad," looking beyond the careless labeling that has characterized a great deal of the commentary on Steinbeck's writing to the true strengths and weaknesses of the works. The contributors demonstrate that even in the...
"The Grapes of Wrath" is generally considered Steinbeck's masterpiece, but the short novel was the form he most frequently turned to and most consciou...
This collection is a strong companion to Benson's first collection. It brings a wealth of material not easily available together with a number of important new essays. The wind direction is changing in Hemingway work. Benson recognizes the shift and sets his sail close to it.--Michael S. Reynolds, North Carolina State University
This collection is a strong companion to Benson's first collection. It brings a wealth of material not easily available together with a number of impo...
Hemingway was first published in 1970. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
In a close critical analysis of five of Ernest Hemingway's novels and a number of his most important short stories, Professor Benson provides a fascinating new view of his work. The novels discussed are The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Across the River and into the Trees, and the Old Man and the...
Hemingway was first published in 1970. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessib...
In a career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner (1909 93) emerged as the greatest contemporary author of the American West writing more than two dozen works of history, biography, essays, and fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and the bestselling Crossing to Safety. Jackson J. Benson s Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work is the first full-dress biography of this celebrated Dean of Western Writers. Drawing on nearly ten years of research and unlimited access to Stegner s letters and personal files, Benson traces the trajectory of...
In a career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner (1909 93) emerged as the greatest contemporary author of the American West writing more th...
Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. Bud Guthrie Jr. brought a blazing realism to the story of the West. That realism, which astounded and even shocked some readers, came out of the depth of Guthrie s historical research and an acuity that had seldom been seen in the work of Western novelists. In Under the Big Sky, the latest in his celebrated series of biographies of Western writers, Jackson J. Benson details the life and work of...
Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories of frontier moun...
Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic film Shane, among other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. Bud Guthrie Jr. brought blazing realism to the story of the West. That realism, which astounded and even shocked some readers, came out of the depth of Guthrie s historical research and an acuity that had seldom been seen in the work of Western novelists. In Under the Big Sky Jackson J. Benson details the life and work of this true giant on the Western literary landscape.
Benson...
Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic film Shane, among other timeless stories of frontier m...
