The author describes his work on a Stenbeck autobiography, facts about Steinbeck's life, and the reasons behind the political bias against Steinbeck.
In 1968, Jackson J. Benson, then a na ve young literature professor, set out to write a critical appraisal of John Steinbeck, a writer who Benson thought was greatly undervalued by the scholarly establishment. To Benson's amazement, he shortly found his project turning into an...