Jackson J. Benson (New York: Viking, 2002).
The Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University, founded in 1971, contains the largest Steinbeck archive in the world, with thousands of books, book manuscripts, manuscript letters, scrapbooks, photographs, and other biographical materials. The center also issues Steinbeck Studies and the Steinbeck News-letter , semiannual publications of the John Steinbeck Society. Tetsumaro Hayashi, one of the pioneers in Steinbeck scholarship, also established a special Steinbeck Collection at the Alexander Bracken Library, Ball State University.
Steinbeck has been particularly fortunate to have attracted the attention of skilled bibliographers. See John Steinbeck: The Contemporary Reviews , compiled by Joseph R. McElrath and Jesse S. Crisler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Hayashi compiled both A New Steinbeck Bibliography, 1929-1971 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1973) and A New Steinbeck Bibliography, 1971-1981 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1983). These volumes have been supplemented by Michael J. Meyerâs The Hayashi Steinbeck Bibliography, 1982-1996 (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1998).
OTHER MAJOR WORKS BY JOHN STEINBECK
Cannery Row . New York: Viking, 1944.
East of Eden . New York: Viking, 1953.
The Grapes of Wrath . New York: Viking, 1939.
In Dubious Battle . New York: Viking, 1936.
Of Mice and Men . New York: Viking, 1937.
The Red Pony . New York: Viking, 1937.
Tortilla Flat . New York: Viking, 1935.
Travels with Charley . New York: Viking, 1962.
The Winter of Our Discontent . New York: Viking, 1961.
WORKS ABOUT JOHN STEINBECK
Benson, Jackson J. Looking for Steinbeckâs Ghost . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
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âââ. The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer . New York: Viking, 1984.
DeMott, Robert, ed. Steinbeckâs Typewriter: Essays on His Art . Troy, N.Y.: Whitston, 1996.
Fontenrose, Joseph. John Steinbeck: An Introduction and Interpretation . New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1963.
French, Warren. John Steinbeckâs Fiction Revisited . New York: Twayne, 1994.
Kiernan, Thomas. The Intricate Music: A Biography of John Steinbeck . Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.
Levant, Howard. The Novels of John Steinbeck: A Critical Study . Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974.
Lisca, Peter. John Steinbeck: Nature and Myth . New York: Crowell, 1978.
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âââ. The Wide World of John Steinbeck . New Brunswick, N.J.: Rut gers University Press, 1958.
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Marks, Lester Jay. Thematic Design in the Novels of John Steinbeck . The Hague: Mouton, 1969.
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McCarthy, Paul. John Steinbeck . New York: Unger, 1980.
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Millichap, Joseph R. Steinbeck and Film . New York: Unger, 1983.
Owens, Louis. John Steinbeckâs Re-Vision of America . Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
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Parini, Jay. John Steinbeck: A Biography . New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1995.
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Timmerman, John H. John Steinbeckâs Fiction: The Aesthetics of the Road Taken . Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.
ESSAYS ON THE WAYWARD BUS
Astro, Richard. âSteinbeckâs Postwar Trilogy: A Return to Nature and the Natural Man,â Twentieth Century Literature 16 (April 1970), 109- 22.
Busch, Christopher S. âSteinbeckâs The Wayward Bus : An Affirmation of the Frontier Myth,â Steinbeck Quarterly 25 (Summer-Fall 1992), 98-108.
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Ditsky, John. âSome Second Thoughts About the Ending of The Wayward Bus : A Note,â University of Windsor Review 20 (Fall-Winter 1987), 85-88.
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âââ. â The Wayward Bus : Love and Time in America,â San Jose Studies 1 (November 1975), 89-101.
âââ. âWork, Blood, and The Wayward Bus ,â in After The Grapes of Wrath: Essays on John Steinbeck , ed. Donald V. Coers, Paul D. Ruffin, and Robert J. DeMott. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994, 136 -47.
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