SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
Many of Steinbeck’s private letters, interviews,
and journals have been published over the years. Of particular
interest are Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, ed. Elaine
Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten (New York: Viking, 1975);
Conversations with John Steinbeck, ed. Thomas Fensch (
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988); Working Days:
The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, ed. Robert DeMott (New
York: Viking, 1989); and Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden
Letters (New York: Viking, 1969). Many of these letters and
journals are excerpted along with other comments on the craft of
authorship in John Steinbeck on Writing, ed. Tetsumaro
Hayashi (Muncie, Ind.: Steinbeck Research Institute, Ball State
University, 1988).
The best collection of Steinbeck’s little-known
nonfiction writings is America and Americans and Selected
Nonfiction, ed. Susan Shillinglaw and Jackson J. Benson (New
York: Viking, 2002).
The Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose
State University, founded in 1971, contains the largest Steinbeck
archive in the world, with thousands of books, book manuscripts,
manuscript letters, scrapbooks, photographs, and other biographical
materials. The center also issues Steinbeck Studies and the
Steinbeck News-letter , semiannual publications of the John
Steinbeck Society. Tetsumaro Hayashi, one of the pioneers in
Steinbeck scholarship, also established a special Steinbeck
Collection at the Alexander Bracken Library, Ball State
University.
Steinbeck has been particularly fortunate to have
attracted the attention of skilled bibliographers. See John
Steinbeck: The Contemporary Reviews, compiled by Joseph R.
McElrath and Jesse S. Crisler (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1996). Hayashi compiled both A New Steinbeck
Bibliography, 1929-1971 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1973) and
A New Steinbeck Bibliography, 1971-1981 (Metuchen, N.J.:
Scarecrow, 1983). These volumes have been supplemented by Michael
J. Meyer’s The Hayashi Steinbeck Bibliography, 1982-1996
(Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1998).
OTHER MAJOR WORKS BY JOHN STEINBECK
Cannery Row. New York: Viking,
1944.
East of Eden. New York: Viking,
1953.
The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking,
1939.
In Dubious Battle. New York: Viking,
1936.
Of Mice and Men. New York: Viking,
1937.
The Red Pony. New York: Viking,
1937.
Tortilla Flat. New York: Viking,
1935.
Travels with Charley. New York: Viking,
1962.
The Winter of Our Discontent. New York:
Viking, 1961.
WORKS ABOUT JOHN STEINBECK
Benson, Jackson J. Looking for Steinbeck’s
Ghost. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
———. The True Adventures of John Steinbeck,
Writer. New York: Viking, 1984.
DeMott, Robert, ed. Steinbeck’s Typewriter:
Essays on His Art. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston, 1996.
Fontenrose, Joseph. John Steinbeck: An
Introduction and Interpretation. New York: Holt, Rinehart,
1963.
French, Warren. John Steinbeck’s Fiction
Revisited. New York: Twayne, 1994.
Kiernan, Thomas. The Intricate Music: A
Biography of John Steinbeck. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.
Levant, Howard. The Novels of John Steinbeck:
A Critical Study. Columbia: University of Missouri Press,
1974.
Lisca, Peter. John Steinbeck: Nature and
Myth. New York: Crowell, 1978.
———. The Wide World of John Steinbeck.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rut gers University Press, 1958.
Marks, Lester Jay. Thematic Design in the
Novels of John Steinbeck. The Hague: Mouton, 1969.
McCarthy, Paul. John Steinbeck. New York:
Unger, 1980.
Millichap, Joseph R. Steinbeck and Film.
New York: Unger, 1983.
Owens, Louis. John Steinbeck’s Re-Vision of
America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
Parini, Jay. John Steinbeck: A Biography.
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1995.
Timmerman, John H. John Steinbeck’s Fiction:
The Aesthetics of the Road Taken. Norman and London: University
of Oklahoma Press, 1986.
ESSAYS ON THE WAYWARD BUS
Astro, Richard. “Steinbeck’s Postwar Trilogy: A
Return to Nature and the Natural Man,” Twentieth Century
Literature 16 (April 1970), 109- 22.
Busch, Christopher S. “Steinbeck’s The
Wayward Bus: An Affirmation of the Frontier Myth,” Steinbeck
Quarterly 25 (Summer-Fall 1992), 98-108.
Ditsky, John. “Some Second Thoughts About the
Ending of The Wayward Bus: A Note,” University of Windsor
Review 20 (Fall-Winter 1987), 85-88.
———. “The Wayward Bus: Love and Time in
America,” San Jose Studies 1 (November 1975), 89-101.
———. “Work, Blood, and The Wayward Bus,”
in After The Grapes of Wrath: Essays on John Steinbeck, ed.
Donald V. Coers, Paul D. Ruffin, and Robert J. DeMott. Athens: Ohio
University Press, 1994, 136 -47.
Gonzales, Bobbi, and Mimi Gladstein. “The
Wayward Bus: Steinbeck’s Misogynistic Manifesto?” in
Rediscovering Steinbeck: Revisionist Views of His Art, Politics,
and Intellect, ed. Cliff Lewis and Carroll Britch. Lewiston,
N.Y.: Mellen, 1989, 157-73.
Lisca, Peter. “The Wayward Bus: A Modern
Pilgrimage,” in Steinbeck and His Critics, ed. E. W. Tedlock
and C. V. Wicker. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
1957, 281-90.
Morsberger, Robert E. “Steinbeck’s The
Wayward Bus,” in A Study Guide to Steinbeck, Part II,
ed. Tetsumaro Hayashi. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1979,
210-31.
Owens, Louis D. “The Wayward Bus: A
Triumph of Nature,” San Jose Studies 6 (February 1980),
45-53.
Railsback, Brian. “The Wayward Bus:
Misogyny of Sexual Selection?” in After The Grapes of Wrath:
Essays on John Steinbeck, ed. Donald V. Coers, Paul D. Ruffin,
and Robert J. DeMott. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994,
125-35.
Seixas, Antonio. “John Steinbeck and the
Non-Teleological Bus,” in Steinbeck and His Critics, ed. E.
W. Tedlock and C. V. Wicker. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
Press, 1957, 275-80.