

William Souder - author of Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck (W.

A deft and dazzling study of a complex and misunderstood writer's emergence – a term Steinbeck would appreciate – a half century after his passing.' Widely read and as widely held in critical disrepute, Steinbeck has at last been rescued by Gavin Jones, whose deep and exacting scholarship is matched by his compassion and an eagerness to explore the connective tissues in Steinbeck's work. ‘No American writer is in greater need of reassessment than John Steinbeck.
