Thomas Fensch

Conversations with John Steinbeck Thomas Fensch

Marc Notes: Also avail. in cloth at $19.95 Australia. Review Citations: Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1993 pg. 840 (EAN 9780878053605, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1992 pg. 547 (EAN 9780878053605, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 834 (EAN 9780878053605, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 483 (EAN 9780878053605, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 854 (EAN 9780878053605, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 607 (EAN 9780878053605, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 751 (EAN 9780878053605, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Fensch, Thomas Thomas has published 17 nonfiction books. Contributor Bio:  Steinbeck, John No writer is more quintessentially American than John Steinbeck. Born in 1902 in Salinas, California, Steinbeck attended Stanford University before working at a series of mostly blue-collar jobs and embarking on his literary career. Profoundly committed to social progress, he used his writing to raise issues of labor exploitation and the plight of the common man, penning some of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century and winning such prestigious awards as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He received the Nobel Prize in 1962, "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." Today, more than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures.