Word: steinbeck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TRUE ADVENTURES OF JOHN STEINBECK, WRITER by Jackson J. Benson; Viking; 1,116 pages...
Faulty timing marked his career. Though only three years younger than Ernest Hemingway, he was ineligible for the vocation of Great War novelist. While the young Hemingway was driving an ambulance on the Italian front, Steinbeck was a second-rate basketball player at Salinas (Calif.) High School. In 1925, the year that F. Scott Fitzgerald became famous for The Great Gatsby, Steinbeck, 23, was still studying "creative writing" at Stanford-too late, as well as too naive, to become a chronicler of the jazz age. William Faulkner sank his roots in Oxford, Miss., and lived off the accumulated capital...
...Grape of Wrath: Editors should force writers to establish themes quickly and economically. In face, limiting Steinbeck in this manner might even further his theme of poverty and hopelessness; Bunches of grapes for the privileged, one grope of the deprived. Of A Mouse and A Man stands on the horizon...
...foundation, an itching land-greed seemed to come over them. They wanted more and more land?good land if possible, but land anyway . . . The early settlers took up land they didn't need and couldn't use; they took up worthless land just to own it. ?John Steinbeck, East of Eden...
...conversation shifts to Hollywood, where Welch feels she was ill-treated by the film industry. She thought she had finally made a breakthrough into serious acting when she was chosen in 1980 to play the lead in the movie version of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. She was fired a few weeks after work began, however, for reasons that are still murky, and the shock was traumatic...