John Steinbeck is known as one of the greatest American writers of all time. A Pulitizer Prize and Nobel Prize winner, he’s best remembered for the Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. However, his Nobel Prize came with some controversy and years later when the Nobel archives were opened up, it was revealed that the selection for that year was not particularly outstanding, and that a compromise had been made. Steinbeck was reputedly very modest about his own writing and admired many others.
Wiki tells us that: ‘At his own first Nobel Prize press conference he was asked his favorite authors and works and replied: “Hemingway‘s short stories and nearly everything Faulkner wrote.”‘
Why don’t you decide for yourself! I was drawn to his short stories in The Red Pony, which remains one of my favourite collections.
In store now we have the following to choose from:
The Pearl – Reprint, 1951
The Winter of Our Discontent – First UK edition, 1961
The Wayward Bus – First US edition, 1947
Cannery Row – First UK edition, 1945
The Grapes of Wrath – Reprint, 1944
The Short Reign of Pippin IV – First UK edition, 1957
