John Steinbeck A Centennial Tribute

Subjects:

• Literature » American Literature

Reviews:

• Stephen George. in this marvelous centennial tribute, keeps Steinbeck alive and makes readers even more aware that Steinbeck is timeless. Through George's mosaic depiction of Steinbeck's life and times, readers become even more alive as they are warmed by the "flame" and reverently "remember him."
  —JASAT October 2003
• [a]n impressive selection of personal reminiscences drawn from the celebrated author's sons, wives, and closest friends....John Steinbeck: A Centennial Tribute is a seminal and very highly recommended collections of revealing and insightful observations embracing the totality of Steinbeck's literary legacy.
  —Library Bookwatch July 2003
• John Steinbeck: A Centennial Tribute is an impressive selection of personal reminiscences drawn from the celebrated author's sons, wives, and closest friends....Taken collectively, John Steinbeck: A Centennial Tribute is a seminal and very highly recommended collection of revealing and insightful observations embracing the totality of Steinbeck's literary legacy.
  —Internet Bookwatch July 2003

• Endorsement From Lee Richard Hayman
  Trustee, National Steinbeck Center
  Steinbeck collector and scholar: This compilation of important articles and essays on Steinbeck's life and work is a carefully selected anthology that offers a wide spectrum of understanding the literary legacy that Steinbeck has left us. The Centennial collection is a boon to other writers, students and educators alike.
• Endorsement From Art Ring
  educator, author, Cannery Row Foundation Board: From Thom Steinbeck's "My Father, John Steinbeck" to John Disky's "John Steinbeck--Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," A Centennial Tribute is hard to put down--a wonderfully insightful look into the Steinbeck persona.
• Endorsement From Studs Terkel
  Author, Pulitzer Prize recipient: These memories of John Steinbeck offered by colleagues and friends evoke a remembrance of time past to the reader as well. A valuable addition to any library of Steinbeck fans.
• Endorsement From Jay Parini
  author, John Steinbeck: A Biography: Stephen George has assembled a splendid collection on Steinbeck, one that should go a long way toward restoring his place in American literature as a writer of the highest caliber. . . . Anyone interested in Steinbeck and his world must own this important book.
• Endorsement From Louis Owens: From Thom Steinbeck's wonderful reflections on his complex, famous father through an extraordinary range of testimonials and delightful stories about John Steinbeck to contemporary critical appraisals, this is a remarkable collection. Here is Steinbeck the father, friend, neighbor, and artist. It is a fitting tribute to a writer destined not merely to remain in the world's imagination but to grow in stature as we move more deeply into this new century and we bend more closely over the fine print of his life's work.
• Endorsement From Edward Albee: The approval of one's peers tells us much--more even than the revilings of one's enemies. This is a good book.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Stephen George
• Family, Friends, and Authors
• My Father, John Steinbeck by Thom Steinbeck
• John Steinbeck Was My Father by John Steinbeck IV
• "John Believed in Man ": An Interview with Mrs. John Steinbeck by Elaine Steinbeck
• "The Marriage of His Life": Meeting John Steinbeck by Gwyn Steinbeck
• My Cousin, John Steinbeck by Stanford Steinbeck
• John Steinbeck by Burgess Meredith
• John Steinbeck: A Reminiscence by Webster Street
• "I Think I Just Saw God": Thoughts on John Steinbeck by Virginia Scardigli
• John Steinbeck: Footnote for a Memoir by John Kenneth Galbraith
• Steinbeck by Arthur Miller
• Full Body Wine from the Grapes of Wrath by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
• John Steinbeck and the American Novel by Tom Wolfe
• John Steinbeck: A Lion in Winter by Budd Schulberg
• Critics, Scholars, and Bibliographers
• Why Read John Steinbeck? by Susan Shillinglaw
• Sharing the Immeasurable View with John Steinbeck by Brian Railsback
• Steinbeck's Spirituality: A Sense of the Ending by Barbara Heavilin
• John Steinbeck: An Ethics of Fiction by John Timmerman
• Steinbeck and the Woman Question: A Never-Ending Puzzle by Mimi Gladstein
• Steinbeck's Concept of the Function of Fiction by Warren French
• "Of Ink and Heart's Blood": Episodes in Reading Steinbeck's East of Eden by Robert DeMott
• My Steinbeck Odyssey by Robert Morsberger
• Steinbeck, Ricketts, and Memories of Times Past by Richard Astro
• Traveling with John: My Journey as a Steinbeck Scholar by Michael Meyer
• Of Mice and Men and (Perhaps) Other Things by Roy Simmonds
• John Steinbeck: A Writer Who Spans the Oceans by Kiyoshi Nakayama
• Steinbeck in Scandinavia by Donald Coers
• John Steinbeck and his Immortal Literary Legacy by Tetsumaro Hayashi
• John Steinbeck--Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by John Ditsky
• Selected Bibliography
• Index