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Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck

By William Souder
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By William Souder

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Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 in Nonfiction


A resonant biography of America’s most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression.

The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. Pulitzer Prize finalist William Souder explores Steinbeck’s long apprenticesh...

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