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Nonetheless, in John Steinbeck’s letters to his ... but the inarticulate and powerful yearning of all men.” Another time he spoke of the book as “an experiment in making a play that can ...

Dunkle’s book may help elevate Babb’s status, not simply because it so thoroughly explores the Steinbeck affair but because it succeeds at doing what all good literary biographies do ...

The refugees Babb met at the camps were not all poor ... if Sanora Babb and John Steinbeck had thoroughly discussed an identical theme and set out to write their separate books—so similar ...

The book’s success led to the cancellation of ... In May of that year, John Steinbeck, fresh off the success of “Of Mice and Men,” came to visit Tom Collins, a camp manager and Babb ...

“We have overcome all enemies but ourselves ... “You’re kidding me!” he said. “John Steinbeck came here?” When I quoted what Steinbeck had written in the book about the strangeness ...