WESTFIELD, N.J. -- When an eighth-grade class at Roosevelt Intermediate School tackled Chapter 4 of John Steinbeck's ''Of Mice and Men'' one morning last week, the conversation focused on the loneliness of a minor white character known as Curley's wife. The next day at the same time, five miles away at the Cedarbrook K-8 Center in Plainfield,...
AMERICAN DREAMERS How the Left Changed a Nation By Michael Kazin Illustrated. 329 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $27.95. We might as well call it: The American left is dead. Faced with the greatest crisis of capitalism in almost a century, the left has mounted no effective mass protests, inspired no significant uprisings, spawned no major institutions or...
To the Editor: Your April 10 editorial ''The Truth About Charley'' frets that John Steinbeck lied in portions of his book ''Travels With Charley in Search of America,'' about his 1960 cross-country journey with his dog. What if he did? As Picasso said, ''Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.'' MICHEL DEDINA Imperial Beach, Calif., April 11,...
John Steinbeck (27. februar 1902 - 20. december 1968) var en amerikansk forfatter. Han fik Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1962.
Selv om Steinbecks bøger faktisk spænder ganske bredt i deres emner, står han for mange læsere i høj grad som en hjemstavnsforfatter. Mange af hans bøger foregår helt eller delvist i Salinas-dalen i Californien, hvor han var født og voksede op.