“Mad at the World” seems, at first glance, an odd title for a book. But William Souder believes it conveys the personality and work of John Steinbeck, who brought social realism to the forefront in ...

John Steinbeck hated success. Though he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Nobel Prize for literature, though he earned a fortune from his books and the movies inspired by them, the American ...

John Steinbeck’s fiction is often held up as an exemplar of politically engaged art, but William Souder’s concise new biography, “Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck,” argues persuasively that ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.18.1.v • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/steinbeckreview.18.1.v Copy URL Gorman, Amanda. “The Hill We Climb ...