JOHN STEINBECK, WRITER / A BIOGRAPHY

"An important American life well told... John Steinbeck had great personal courage... and he lived a full American life-with its promises and its paradoxes, its stimuli and temptation-with appetite and bravery. And Mr. Benson has told the story with a narrative force that in itself is the highest compliment he can pay to his subject." -Kevin Starr, The New York Times Book Review

"Honest, fair, sympathetic and ultimately very satisfying... This was a writer who reached out and touched the world not by accident but because he was a feeling, superior, perceptive man." - Wallace Stegner, Los Angeles Times

"Benson has produced the fullest biography that can conceivably be asked for." -Walter Clemons, Newsweek