1953
“The Stevenson Letter.” New Republic, 5 Jan. 1953: 13-14.
“The Secret Weapon We Were Afraid to Use.” Collier’s, 10 Jan. 1953: 9-13.
“Ballantine Ale.” Life, 26 Jan. 1953: 92-93.
“I Go Back to Ireland.” Collier’s, 31 Jan. 1953: 48-50.
“Autobiography: Making of a New Yorker.” New York Times Magazine, 1 Feb. 1953: 26-27, 66-67.
“Positano.” Harper’s Bazaar, May 1953: 158, 185, 187-90, 194. Reprinted as Positano. Salerno, Italy: Ente Provinciale Per Il Turismo, 1954.
“A Model T Named ‘It.’ ” Ford Times, July 1953: 34-39.
“My Short Novels.” Wings, Oct. 1953: 4-8.
1954
“Circus.” Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus program, 1954: 6-7.
“Trade Winds: When, Two Summers Ago . . .” Saturday Review, 27 Feb. 1954: 8.
“In Awe of Words.” The Exonian, 3 Mar. 1954: 4.
“One American in Paris.” Le Figaro Littéraire, 12 June-18 Sept. 1954. A series of seventeen articles, as well as an eighteenth published in a French collection, Un Américain à New-York et à Paris, 1956. Manuscripts and typescripts of the seventeen articles written for Le Figaro are located in the Marlene Brody Collection at the Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University; transcriptions in this book are taken from the typescripts.
“Death with a Camera.” Picture Post (London), 12 June 1954.
“Jalopies I Cursed and Loved.” Holiday, July 1954: 44-45, 89-90.
“Fishing in Paris.” Punch, 25 Aug. 1954: 248-49. Also published as “Of Fish and Fishermen.” Sports Illustrated, 4 Oct. 1954: 45. From Le Figaro.
“Robert Capa: An Appreciation.” Photography, Sept. 1954: 48.
“The Miracle of Joan.” John O’London’s Weekly, 19 Sept. 1954: 907. From Le Figaro.
“Good Guy—Bad Guy.” Punch, 22 Sept. 1954: 375-78.
“Steinbeck’s Voices of America.” Scholastic, 3 Nov. 1954: 15.
“Reality and Illusion.” Punch, 17 Nov. 1954: 616-17. From Le Figaro.
1955
“A Plea for Tourists.” Punch, 26 Jan. 1955: 148-49. From Le Figaro.
“The Affair at 7, Rue de M——” Harper’s Bazaar, Apr. 1955: 112, 202, 213. From Le Figaro.
“The Death of a Racket.” Saturday Review, 2 Apr. 1955: 26.
“Cooks of Wrath.” Everybody’s, 9 Apr. 1955. From Le Figaro.
“Capital Roundup: Paris.” Saturday Review, 16 Apr. 1955: 41. From Le Figaro.
“A Plea to Teachers.” Saturday Review, 30 Apr. 1955: 24.
“The Summer Before.” Punch, 25 May 1955: 647-51.
“Some Thoughts on Juvenile Delinquency.” Saturday Review, 28 May 1955: 22.
“Always Something to Do in Salinas.” Holiday, June 1955: 58-59, 152-53, 156. Reprinted as Always Something to Do in Salinas. Bradenton, FL: Opuscula Press, 1986. 300 copies.
“Report on America.” Punch, 22 June 1955: 754-55.
“Bricklaying Piece.” Punch, 27 July 1955: 92.
“How to Recognize a Candidate.” Punch, 10 Aug. 1955: 146-48.
“Critics—from a Writer’s Viewpoint.” Saturday Review, 27 Aug. 1955: 20, 28.
“A Letter on Criticism.” Colorado Quarterly 4 (Autumn 1955): 218-19.
“Random Thoughts on Random Dogs.” Saturday Review, 8 Oct. 1955: 11.
“. . . like captured fireflies.” CTA Journal, Nov. 1955: 7.
“We’re Holding Our Own.” Lilliput, Nov. 1955: 18-19. Also published as “The Short-Short Story of Mankind.” Playboy, Apr. 1958.
“Writer’s Mail.” Punch, 2 Nov. 1955: 512-13.
“Trade Winds: In a radio broadcast beamed to listeners in foreign countries, John Steinbeck had this to say about New York City.” Saturday Review, 26 Nov. 1955: 8-9.
“Dreams Piped from Cannery Row.” New York Times, 27 Nov. 1955: Sec. 2: 1, 3.
“What Is the Real Paris?” Holiday, Dec. 1955: 94. From Le Figaro.
“More About Aristocracy: Why Not a World Peerage?” Saturday Review, 10 Dec. 1955: 11.
1956
“The Yank in Europe.” Holiday, Jan. 1956: 25. From Le Figaro.
“The Joan in All of Us.” Saturday Review, 14 Jan. 1956: 17. From Le Figaro.
“Miracle Island of Paris.” Holiday, Feb. 1956: 43. From Le Figaro.
“Madison Avenue and the Election.” Saturday Review, 31 Mar. 1956: 11.
“Needles—Derby Day Choice for President?” Louisville Courier-Journal, 6 May 1956: 8.
“The Vegetable War.” Saturday Review, 21 July 1956: 34-35.
“Discovering the People of Paris.” Holiday, Aug. 1956: 36. From Le Figaro.
“The Mail I’ve Seen.” Saturday Review, 4 Aug. 1956: 16, 34.
Reporting on 1956 Democratic and Republican Conventions. Louisville Courier-Journal, 12-25 Aug. 1956.
1957
“Trust Your Luck.” Saturday Review, 12 Jan. 1957: 42-44. From Le Figaro.
“My War with the Ospreys.” Holiday, Mar. 1957: 72-73, 163-65.
“John Steinbeck States His Views on Cannery Row.” Monterey Peninsula Herald, 8 Mar. 1957: 1.
“Letters to the Courier-Journal.” Louisville Courier-Journal, 17 Apr.-17 July 1957. Series of twenty-three travel articles.
“A Game of Hospitality.” Saturday Review, 20 Apr. 1957: 24.
“The Trial of Arthur Miller.” Esquire, June 1957: 86.
“Red Novelist’s [Sholokoff’s] Visit Produces Uneasy Talk.” Louisville Courier-Journal, 17 July 1957.
“Television and Radio.” New York Herald Tribune, 23 Aug. 1957: Sec. 2:1.
“Open Season on Guests.” Playboy, Sept. 1957: 21.
“Steinbeck and the Flu.” Newsday, 9 Sept. 1957: 37.
“ ‘D’ for Dangerous.” McCall’s, Oct. 1957: 57, 82.
“Dichos: The Way of Wisdom.” Saturday Review, 9 Nov. 1957: 13.
1958
“Dedication.” Journal of the American Medical Association, 12 July 1958: 1388-89.
“The Easiest Way to Die.” Saturday Review, 23 Aug. 1958: 12, 37.
“Healthy Anger.” Books and Bookman, Oct. 1958: 24.
“The Golden Handcuff.” San Francisco Examiner, 23 Nov. 1958.
1959
“Writer Catches Lions by Tale.” Monterey Peninsula Herald, 3 Oct. 1959: 1, 3.
“Adlai Stevenson and John Steinbeck Discuss the Past and the Present.” Newsday, 22 Dec. 1959: 34-35.
1960
“Have We Gone Soft?” New Republic, 15 Feb. 1960: 11-15.
“Steinbeck Replies.” Newsday, 1 Mar. 1960: 27.
“A Primer on the Thirties.” Esquire, June 1960: 85-93.
“Atque Vale.” Saturday Review, 23 July 1960: 13.
1961
“Conversation at Sag Harbor.” Holiday, Mar. 1961: 60-61, 129-31, 133.
“High Drama of Bold Thrust Through Ocean Floor.” Life, 14 Apr. 1961: 110-18, 120, 122.
“In Quest of America,” part one. Holiday 30, no. 1 (July 1961): [26], 27-33, 79-85.
“The Critic Defined.” Letter to the editor. Newsweek, 10 July 1961: 2.
“Sorry—If I had any advice to give I’d take it myself.” Writer’s Digest, Sept. 1961.
“In Quest of America,” part two. Holiday 30, no. 6 (Dec. 1961): 60-65, 116-18, 120-21, 124, 126-28, 130-31, 134-36.
1962
“In Quest of America,” part three. Holiday 31, no. 2 (Feb. 1962): 58-63, 122.
1963
“To the Swedish Academy.” Story, Mar.-Apr. 1963: 6-8. Acceptance speech for Nobel Prize.
“Reflections on a Lunar Eclipse.” New York Sunday Herald Tribune, 6 Oct. 1963: Book Week 3.
Quote about Berlin Wall. Time, 20 Dec. 1963: 28.
1964
“The Pure West.” Montana, the Big Sky Country: Official Publication of the Montana Territorial Centennial Commission 1 (196
4): 6-9, 30, 35. Text is from Travels with Charley.
Letter to Samuel Tankel, publisher. Short Story International 1 (Apr. 1964).
“The Language of Courtesy.” New World Review, Dec. 1964: 26.
1965
“Letters to Alicia.” Newsday, 20 Nov. 1965-28 May 1966.
“Then My Arm Glassed Up.” Sports Illustrated, 20 Dec. 1965: 94-96, 99-102.
1966
“How Steinbeck’s Religious Career Ended.” Salinas Californian, 26 Feb. 1966: 16, 10.
“The Waiter Is Liable to Lose Face.” Newsday, 28 Feb. 1966: 35.
“America and the Americans.” Saturday Evening Post, 2 July 1966: 33-38, 40-41, 44, 46-47.
“An Open Letter to Poet Yevtushenko.” Newsday, 11 July 1966: 3.
“Let’s Go After the Neglected Treasures Beneath the Seas.” Popular Science, Sept. 1966: 84-87.
“Henry Fonda.” Harper’s Bazaar, Nov. 1966: 215.
“John Steinbeck’s America.” Newsday, 12-19 Nov. 1966. Seven essays from America and Americans.
“Letters to Alicia.” Newsday, 3 Dec. 1966-20 May 1967.
1967
“A Warning to the Viet Cong—Keep New Year’s Truce or Else.” Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 1967: C2.
“Challenge to Soviets.” Newsday, 5 Jan. 1967: 5, 75.
“Steinbeck in Vietnam: ‘Pravda Called Me an Accomplice in a Murder, but Do They Know the Facts?’ ” Daily Sketch (London), 6 Jan. 1967: 6.
“John Steinbeck vs. Erle Stanley Gardner” (“Camping Is for the Birds”). Popular Science, May 1967: 160, 204-5.
Quotation. Weekly Messenger (Presbyterian Hospital, New York City), 29 May 1967.
1969
“The Art of Fiction, XLV.” Paris Review, Fall 1969: 161-88. Compilation of quotes from various sources.
1971
“On the Craft of Writing.” Intellectual Digest, June 1971: 126-27. From Journal of a Novel.
1975
“Graduates: These Are Your Lives!” Esquire, Sept. 1975: 69, 142-43.
“The Art of Fiction, XLV (Continued).” Paris Review, Fall 1975: 180-94.
1992
“Steinbeck on Politics.” The Steinbeck Newsletter, Spring 1992: 12.
1994
“Steinbeck on Politics, Part 2.” The Steinbeck Newsletter, Winter 1994: 5.
1997
“Sag Harbor: Manifesto.” The Steinbeck Newsletter, Fall 1997: 9.
INDEX
Abelard, Peter
abolitionism
“About Ed Ricketts” (Steinbeck)
“Action in the Delta” (Steinbeck)
“Adlai Stevenson” (Steinbeck)
“Adlai Stevenson and John Steinbeck Discuss the Past and the Present,”
Africa
Afrika Korps
Agincourt, Battle of
Air Force Training Command
Alabama bus boycott
Alien and Sedition Acts
“Always Something to Do in Salinas” (Steinbeck)
America
America and Americans (Steinbeck)
“Afterword,”
“Americans and the Future,”
“Americans and the Land,”
“Americans and the World,”
“Created Equal,”
“E Pluribus Unum,”
Foreword
“Genus Americanus,”
“Government of the People,”
“Paradox and Dream,”
photographs in
“Pursuit of Happiness, The,”
reviews of
America First
Américain à New-York et à Paris, Un (Steinbeck)
American dream
American Federation of Labor (AF of )
American Indians see also specific Indian tribes
American Revolution
American Way of Life
Anderson, Hungry
Anderson, Lala
Anderson, Sherwood
Apache Indians
Army, U.S. see also specific units
Arthurian legends
Art of the Fugue (Bach)
Arvin government camp
ASPCA
Associated Farmers
“As Time Goes By” (Hupfeld)
Atlantic Monthly
atom bomb
“Atque Vale” (Steinbeck)
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Baldwin, Lucky
“Ballad of Tom Joad, The” (Guthrie)
Bangkok
Bank of America
Bardin, Jim
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Barry, John
Basques
Bassac River
Bassano, Bassani
Bassenden, Ray
Beat Generation
Benchley, Nathaniel
Benchley, Robert
Benson, Ezra Taft
Berlin, East
Between Pacific Tides (Ricketts)
Bible
Black Marigolds
“Bob Hope” (Steinbeck)
Bomb Boogie
Bonus Marchers
Boy Scouts
Brady, Diamond Jim
Bringing in the Sheaves (Drake)
Bristol, Horace
Brooklyn Dodgers
Bryan, William Jennings
Buchenwald concentration camp
Budapest
Burke, James Hardiman
Burning Bright (Steinbeck)
Byrd, William
Caesar, Julius
Caldwell, Erskine
California
agriculture and migrant labor in
Central Valley
Imperial Valley
Kern County
King’s County
Monterey Peninsula
earthquake
redwood forests of
Spanish and Mexican roots of see also specific cities
California Fish and Game Commission
California Supreme Court
Cambodia
Camino Real
Canadian Pacific Railway
Cannery Row (Steinbeck)
Can Tho
Capa, Robert
capitalism
Cather, Willa
Cave, Ray
Chandler, A. J.
Charlemagne, king of the Franks
Charlie, Uncle
Chartres Cathedral
Chase, Harold
Cherokee Indians
Cheyenne Indians
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago, University of
China
Chinese tongs
Christ
Christianity
Christopher, George
“Circus” (Steinbeck)
Civil Rights Act
civil rights movement
Civil War, U.S.
Clark, Dick
Clark, Mark
Cohen, Canvasback
Cold War
Collier’s
Collins, Tom
Columbus, Christopher
communism, Communist Party
congressional investigations of
in France
in Italy
JS’s opposition to
Congress, U.S.
Connelly, One Eye
Conner, Joe
Constitution, U.S.
“Conversation at Sag Harbor” (Steinbeck)
Cooper, James Fenimore
Cornishmen
Cornwallis, Charles, Lord
Corporation Man
Coughlin, Father Charles E.
Council of Women for Home Missions
Cousins, Norman
Covici, Pascal “Pat,”
Crane, Stephen
Crécy, Battle of
Crèvecoeur, St. John de
“Critics, Critics, Burning Bright” (Steinbeck)
“Critics—from a Writer’s Viewpoint” (Steinbeck)
Crosby, John
Crusade, first
Czechoslovakia
D
aily Express (London)
Daily Mail (London)
Daly, Anthony
Daughters of the American Revolution
Davis, Thurston N.
Day, A. Grove
Dean, Dizzy
Dean, James
“Dear Adlai” (Steinbeck)
Del Monte Express
democracy
Democratic Party
Depression, Great
government programs in
poverty and unemployment in
Descartes, René
Dickson, Carrie
Dickson, Mr.
Dies Committee
Donegal
Donna, hurricane
Dos Passos, John
Douglas
Drake, Windsor
Dreiser, Theodore
“Dubious Battle in California” (Steinbeck)
“Duel Without Pistols” (Steinbeck)
Dulles, John Foster
Du Pont
Duse, Eleonora
Dust Bowl
East Berlin
East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Eighth Army, British h Infantry, U.S.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
elections, U.S.:
of
of
of
of
Ellison, Ralph
Emancipation Proclamation
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Engels, Friedrich
England
JS in
language groups in
Roman occupation of
see also London
“Envoi ’ ” (Steinbeck)
“Ernie Pyle” (Steinbeck)
Escaped Slave laws
Esquire
Ethridge, Mark
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.
Farrell, James T.
Fascism
Faulkner, William
Faust (Goethe)
Figaro (Paris)
Figaro Littéraire
First Army, British
t Cavalry, U.S.
Fisher, Shirley
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flanagan, Hallie
Florence
“Florence: The Explosion of the Chariot” (Steinbeck)
Floyd, Johnny
Fonda, Henry