Title:
Carol & John Steinbeck : portrait of a marriage / Susan Shillinglaw.
Author:
Shillinglaw, Susan.
Publication Information:
Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2013.
Call Number:
PS3537.T3234 Z8664 2013
Abstract:
Writer John Steinbeck's first wife, Carol Henning Steinbeck, was his creative anchor and muse. They met at Lake Tahoe in 1928, their unconventional personalities meshing in artistic synergy. Their literary milieu in 1930s California included Modernist artists and writers such as Lincoln Steffens and Joseph Campbell. This biography reveals much about the dynamic partnership that brought forth one of the great novels of the 20th century, The Grapes of Wrath.
ISBN:
9780874179309
Series:
Western literature series
Western literature series.
Physical Description:
xv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Contents:
Introduction -- Renegades -- Make it new : Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, and Eagle Rock -- Home in Pacific Grove -- At Ed Ricketts's lab -- Wave shock, 1932-35 -- "Viva Mexico!" -- California is a "bomb right now ... highly explosive" : writing The Grapes of Wrath -- Enter Gwen Conger -- On the Sea of Cortez -- Life in fragments -- Coda.
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