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...Defense of Steinbeck...
Only a few months ago I reread some of Steinbeck's books. I was deeply moved by The Crapes of Wrath and delighted by Cannery Row. Probably compassion, humor and good characterization are unsophisticated or passé to the writer of your Steinbeck article [Nov. 2], but a few of us still enjoy them. There are also some of us, incredibly enough, who do not worship at the shrine of Hemingway...
...your completely unjustifiable tirade against Novelist John Steinbeck you fail to mention his major work East of Eden, which, alone, justifies his choice as recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature...
Surely the fact that The Grapes of Wrath has survived its time and place, together with the fact that his books have been translated into 33 foreign languages is proof enough that Steinbeck's work has the power and popularity that very few of the other American winners have been privileged to enjoy...
...seems to me a minor writer with a fairly good comic talent and strong protest in a few books." Lynn mentioned two novels from the '30's. In Dubious Battle and Steinbeck's most famous work, Grapes of Wrath. The Nobel Prize, however, was ostensibly awarded for The Winter of Our Discontent, published last year and panned by critics...