John Steinbeck (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

John Steinbeck stands as one of the most popular and widely read novelists in America. The winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962, Steinbeck wrote such classics as The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, and East of Eden. This title, John Steinbeck, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of John Steinbeck through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on John Steinbeck, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.