Correspondence, interviews, and adaptations
Conversations with John Steinbeck. Thomas Fensch, ed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.
Letters to Elizabeth: A Selection of Letters from John Steinbeck to Elizabeth Otis. Florian J. Shasky and Susan F. Riggs, eds. Foreword by Carlton Sheffield. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1978.
Steinbeck: A Life in Letters. Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten, eds. New York: The Viking Press, 1975.
The Grapes of Wrath. Playscript by Frank Galati. New York: Penguin, 1991.
Biographies, memoirs, and creative sources
Astro, Richard. John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts: The Shaping of a Novelist. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974.
Benson, Jackson J. The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer. New York: The Viking Press, 1984.
—. Looking for Steinbeck’s Ghost. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
DeMott, Robert. Steinbeck’s Reading: A Catalogue of Books Owned and Borrowed. New York: Garland Publishing, 1984.
Fensch, Thomas. Steinbeck and Covici: The Story of a Friendship. Middlebury, VT: Paul S. Eriksson, 1979.
Lorentz, Pare. FDR’s Moviemaker: Memoirs and Scripts. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992.
Sheffield, Carlton. Steinbeck: The Good Companion. Portola Valley, CA: American Lives Endowment, 1983.
Bibliographies
DeMott, Robert. John Steinbeck: A Checklist of Books By and About. Bradenton, FL: Opuscula Press, 1987.
Goldstone, Adrian H., and John R. Payne. John Steinbeck: A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Adrian H. Goldstone Collection. Austin, TX: Humanities Research Center, 1974.
Harmon, Robert B., with the assistance of John F. Early. The Grapes of Wrath: A Fifty Year Bibliographic Survey. San Jose, CA: San Jose State University Steinbeck Research Center, 1990.
Hayashi, Tetsumaro. A New Steinbeck Bibliography, 1927–1971. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1973.
—. A New Steinbeck Bibliography. Supplement I: 1971–1981. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1983.
Riggs, Susan F. A Catalogue of the John Steinbeck Collection at Stanford University. Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 1980.
White, Ray Lewis. “The Grapes of Wrath and the Critics of 1939.”
Resources for American Literary Study 13(Autumn 1983), 134–64.
Books and Book-Length Collections on The Grapes of Wrath
Note: Selected contemporary reviews and a bountiful sampling of standard and original critical assessments of Steinbeck’s novel are available in the following books.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpretations of The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.
Davis, Robert Con, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Grapes of Wrath. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1982.
Ditsky, John, ed. Critical Essays on Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1989.
Donohue, Agnes McNeill, ed. A Casebook on The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968.
French, Warren, ed. A Companion to The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, 1963.
—. Film Guide to The Grapes of Wrath. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1973.
Hayashi, Tetsumaro, ed. Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath: Essays in Criticism. Steinbeck Essay Series, No. 3. Muncie, IN: Ball State University Steinbeck Research Institute, 1990.
Lisca, Peter, ed. Viking Critical Library The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism. New York: The Viking Press, 1972.
Owens, Louis. The Grapes of Wrath: Trouble in the Promised Land. Boston: Twayne, 1989.
Shillinglaw, Susan, ed. “The Grapes of Wrath: A Special Issue.” San Jose Studies xvi (Winter 1990).
Wyatt, David, ed. New Essays on The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Additional References on Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath
Note: Two journals are devoted to Steinbeck studies: Steinbeck Quarterly (1969–), edited by Tetsumaro Hayashi at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana; and The Steinbeck Newsletter (1987–), edited by Susan Shillinglaw at the Steinbeck Research Center, San Jose State University, San Jose, California. The following entries are not reproduced in any of the books listed above.
Benson, Jackson J. “Through a Political Glass, Darkly: The Example of John Steinbeck.” Studies in American Fiction 12(Spring 1984), 45–59.
Bluefarb, Sam. The Escape Motif in the American Novel. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1972, 94–112.
Bristol, Horace. “John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath.” Steinbeck Newsletter 2(Fall 1988), 6–8.
Collins, Thomas A. “From Bringing in the Sheaves, by ‘Windsor Drake.”’ Journal of Modern Literature 5(April 1976), 211–232.
DeMott, Robert. “‘Working Days and Hours’: Steinbeck’s Writing of The Grapes of Wrath.” Studies in American Fiction 18(Spring 1990), 3–15.