National Review, March 25th, 2002
America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction, by John Steinbeck, edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Jackson J. Benson (Viking, 400 pp., $27.95)
John Steinbeck might have been the last writer of a generation for whom being an American seemed in itself a special thing -- and being an American writer an extraordinary thing. Having lit out in the world just after the "Lost Generation," he later wrote that his ragged group should have been called "the Unfortunate Generation because we didn't have a Generation, nor the sense to invent one." They were destined to be bent more by the want of the Thi...
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