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...STEINBECK NEVER HAD A HIT SINGLE...
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Son of a Son of a Sailor John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath Banana Wind William Styron A Tidewater Morning Floridays Irving Wallace The Twenty-Seventh Wife Don't Stop the Carnival Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You'll Go! You Had to Be There...
...John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is published...
...heard no 'Aw, shucks' from me. The prize didn't change my inner assessment of what I'm capable of doing, but I welcomed it as a public, representational affirmation of my work. I was surprised at how patriotic I felt, being the first native-born American winner since Steinbeck in 1962. [Subsequent American laureates--Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky--emigrated to the U.S.] I felt pride that a black and a woman had been recognized in such an international forum...
...debate about where Morrison ranks among the other American laureates will probably simmer for years. Does she belong with Steinbeck and Pearl S. Buck, authors whose earnest social concerns and novels now strike most critics and readers as passe? Some reviewers have found Morrison's novels overly deterministic, her characters pawns in the service of their creator's designs. Essayist Stanley Crouch says Morrison is "immensely talented. I just think she needs a new subject matter, the world she lives in, not this world of endless black victims." But for every pan, Morrison has received a surfeit of paeans...