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Author Shillinglaw, Susan

Title Carol and John Steinbeck : portrait of a marriage / Susan Shillinglaw
Published Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Western Literature series
Western literature series.
Contents Renegades -- Make it new : Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, and Eagle Rock -- Home in Pacific Grove -- At Ed Ricketts's Lab -- Wave Shock, 1932-35 -- "Viva Mexico!" -- California Is a "Bomb Right Now ... Highly Explosive" : Writing The Grapes of Wrath -- Enter Gwen Conger -- On the Sea of Cortez -- Life in Fragments -- Coda
Summary Carol Henning Steinbeck, writer John Steinbeck's first wife, was his creative anchor, the inspiration for his great work of the 1930s, culminating in The Grapes of Wrath. Meeting at Lake Tahoe in 1928, their attachment was immediate, their personalities meshing in creative synergy. Carol was unconventional, artistic, and compelling. In the formative years of Steinbeck's career, living in San Francisco, Pacific Grove, Los Gatos, and Monterey, their Modernist circle included Ed Ricketts, Joseph Campbell, and Lincoln Steffens. In many ways, Carol's story is all too familiar: a creative and intelligent woman subsumes her own life and work into that of her husband. Together, they brought forth one of the enduring novels of the 20th century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 -- Marriage
SUBJECT Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 fast
Subject Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Marriage
Novelists, American
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013008777
ISBN 9780874179316
0874179319