Description
| Product ID: | 9780141186290 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | A Life in Letters |
| Authors: | Author: Mr John Steinbeck, Robert Wallsten, Elaine Steinbeck |
| Page Count: | 928 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Diaries, letters & journals, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, USA, American English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A collection of 850 letters of the author to friends, family, his editor and a diverse circle of well-known and influential public figures. It opens with letters that were written during the author's early years in California, and closing with and unfinished 1968 note written in Sag Harbor, New York. Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck was a prolific correspondent. Opening with letters written during Steinbeck''s early years in California, and closing with an unfinished, 1968 note written in Sag Harbor, New York, this collection of around 850 letters to friends, family, his editor and a diverse circle of well-known and influential public figures gives an insight into the raw creative processes of one of the most naturally-gifted and hard-working writing minds of this century. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-07-05 |
