Word: steinbeck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Steinbeck, on a junket to Scandinavia, got a hero's welcome. Reporters and cameramen woke him at 4 a.m. the morning after his arrival in Sweden; reporters stuck with him on the seven-hour-ride by train and ferry to Copenhagen; more boarded the train at every stop. Cried one Copenhagen paper: "John...
...Steinbeck, all of Denmark is at your feet." A customs guard at the border demanded whether Steinbeck carried whiskey (Ans.: "Lots-I live on it"), cigarets (Ans.: "I chain-smoke"), decided: "In your case that's fine, as long as I may have your autograph...
...writers like Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck, J. P. Marquand and John Hersey could afford-as the Moscow Radio charged last week-to "stay out of touch with the life of their people and the problems which moved all freedom-loving humanity," but Soviet writers, warned a Pravda editorial, must dispense with the "nonsensical theory of a postwar breathing space and the right of literature to relax from ideology...
Soon the letterhead of the A.M.C. boasted such names as John Steinbeck, Clifton Fadiman, Walter Lippmann, John Hersey, Howard Lindsay, George Biddle, Christopher LaFarge, John Dos Passos, Margaret Culkin Banning, Robert St. John, Gregory d'Alessio, Gjon Mili. The first stock issue ($100,000) was sold out in eight weeks; a second (for $160,000) will be floated this week, and 20% of it is already spoken...
Sirs: In the last issue of your magazine [TIME, Feb. 11] you included a discussion of American fiction during the past 30 or 40 years. . . . You appeared to apologize for the fact that the outstanding novelists of the last decade were Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and John O'Hara. Pardon us, but we had thought that no one need apologize for the splendid writings of these men. However, our real issue with you is the fact that you omitted Thomas Wolfe from your list of our best authors. This is incredible. . . . Although they are unorthodox, his novels which...