Steinbeck John

America and Americans

1966réf. 91924New York: The Viking Press 1966. Presumed First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Staff of Studio Books The Viking Press editing o. The format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11 inches. 207 1 pages. Endpaper maps. Illustrations Some in color. The dj has wear tears soiling and chips. The contents include Foreword E Pluribus Unum Paradox and Dream Government of the People Created Equal Genus Americanus The Pursuit of Happiness Americans and the Land Americans and the World Americans and the Future and Afterword. John Ernst Steinbeck February 27 1902 - December 20 1968 was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters". One of the most widely read authors of the 20th century he was also an independent journalist and war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War. During his writing career he authored 33 books with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts including 16 novels 6 non-fiction books and 2 collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row the multigeneration epic East of Eden and the novellas The Red Pony and Of Mice and Men. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath 1939 is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. Much of Steinbeck's work employs settings in his native central California particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works explored the themes of fate and injustice especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists. America and Americans is a 1966 collection of John Steinbeck's journalism. It was Steinbeck's last book. A lifelong journalist Steinbeck observed and commented on what he saw around him in essays letters and criticism; here is some of the best of it the heartfelt America and Americans. This conveys a real sense of one of our best-and best-loved-writers. The Viking Press hardcover

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