john steinbeck

A very early John Steinbeck novel was a Werewolf murder mystery. It was rejected by publishers and hidden away by Steinbeck and his Estate. This, I'd love to read. I'm a big Steinbeck Fan...

To complement the thread on Sir Thomas Malory and other medieval Arthurians (such as Geoffrey of Monmouth, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Gottfried von Strassburg, the Mabinogion, et al.), here's a place to discuss modern writers of poetry and prose who have retold the...

It didn't seem to me that there was a thread dedicated to Steinbeck at all, so I thought I'd set this straight. I was reading around about the Nobel Prize in Literature (which of course Steinbeck won in 1962) and was reminded that he didn't personally think he deserved it. Indeed, there was...

This is, I think, one of the best fantasy novels ever written, and it is a great shame that it isn’t better-known. In the 1950s John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, began a project to translate Sir Thomas Mallory’s medieval book Le Morte D’Arthur into modern...