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Harvard English professors have expressed surprise and some disappointment at the selection of John Steinbeck for the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. The choice "isn't beneath contempt," as one member of the English Department put it, but nearly everyone contacted thought there could have been a better choice...
...hold Mr. Steinbeck's own opinion," said William Alfred, associate professor of English. "It was an 'amazing choice.' It isn't that I disrespect Steinbeck, but I don't think he's done anything since the '30's, when a passion of his happened to coincide with a passion of the world...
Kenneth S. Lynn '45, associate professor of English, offered some explanation for Steinbeck's selection, noting that respect for the novelist has always been greater in Europe than in America...
Trito Travelogue. To U.S. critics, Winter, an allegory of the affluent society, seemed only a thin, high-pitched echo of the early and genuine social protest that filled The Grapes of Wrath. The judges' decision was also reportedly influenced by Steinbeck's latest, bestselling Travels with Charley, which manages to recapture the banality, mawkish sentiment and pseudo philosophy that have marked Steinbeck at his worst...
...possible reason for crowning Steinbeck was widespread criticism that the prize in recent years has often gone to authors little known outside their own lands. No such charge could be leveled against John Steinbeck, whose books have been translated into 33 foreign languages. Just possibly he reads better in some of them, but Dr. Uno Willers. secretary of the Nobel committee, admitted that criticism of the award had been even heavier this year than usual. Steinbeck himself, when asked if he thought he deserved the award, shrugged: "Frankly...