Scott Bradfield

No writer was better suited to chronicle the Depression than John Steinbeck

William Souder reminds us not only of Steinbeck’s empathy for the dispossessed but of how deeply he researched his novels, living for months in migrant camps

Steinbeck always expressed empathy for those sad, aspiring, doomed creatures that were so much like himself. Credit: Getty Images
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  • Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck

    William Souder

    Norton, pp. 446, £25

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