The last piece of published writing from one of America's greatest writers was a series of letters he sent back from the front lines of war at the age of 64. John Steinbeck's dispatches shocked readers and family so much that they've never been reprinted — until now. read more
None. He died In Dec.1968. That would have put him in his mid 60's when Vietnam starting to boil over. He didn't participate nor write about it. read more
In Steinbeck in Vietnam, editor Thomas Barden, professor of English at the University of Toledo, has opened a 45-year-old time capsule. Steinbeck’s columns are mostly superficial and mundane; he writes about Vietnam with naive awe, the way hundreds of us did, proving that conventional journalism could no more effectively deal with the war than conventional firepower could win it. read more