ISBN: 0878053603 9780878053605

Category: Biography & Autobiography / General

Page count: 116

<i>Conversations with John Steinbeck</i> contains all the public interviews Steinbeck gave during his life. His life, it seems in retrospect, can be seen in three phases: his early life in his native state of California; the war years of the 1940s, and the years thereafter. <p> In the earliest interviews in this collection, his is seen actually hiding from publicity, living in and near Monterey Bay, California, as he struggled to become established as a writer. <p> Later, the publication of <i>The Grapes of' Wrath</i>, in 1939, became extremely controversial; he left the country for a time to escape the unceasing demands of' the press and the public. <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> is now generally considered the definitive novel of Depression-era America and is still widely read. Interviews in this collection show him dealing with two failed marriages before a successful third marriage; moving from one writing project to another, dealing with fame and controversy and traveling. These collected interviews offer a unique portrait of a major twentieth-century novelist at work and throughout his life. John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.