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This collection is a strong companion to Benson's first collection. It brings a wealth of material not easily available together with a number of important new essays. The wind direction is changing in Hemingway work. Benson recognizes the shift and sets his sail close to it."--Michael S. Reynolds, North Carolina State University

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Jackson J. Benson is an emeritus¿professor of English¿at San Diego State University. He is the author of several books, including The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography, The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work (available in a Bison Books edition).

Demonstrates that even in the short novels there is more depth and sophistication than has generally been acknowledged

Drawing on Steinbeck's papers and photographs, and scores of interviews, Benson explores the influences that contributed to Steinbeck's archetypal sense of American culture and his controversial concerns. An in-depth study of the shy, private individual behind many American classics Photographs.

Jackson J. Benson's firsthand account of his fifteen-year effort to chronicle the life of John Steinbeck entertainingly interweaves personal anecdote and critical insight.

In a close critical analysis of five of Ernest Hemingway's novels and a number of his most important short stories, Professor Benson provides a fascinating new view of his work. The novels discussed are The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Across the River and into the Trees, and the Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway's art of self-defense, which Professor Benson refers to in his subtitle, was, as he demonstrates in his...

Jackson J. Benson is an emeritus¿professor of English¿at San Diego State University. He is the author of several books, including The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography, The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work (available in a Bison Books edition).

Jackson J. Benson is a professor of English emeritus at San Diego State University. He is the author of several books, including The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer, The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and most recently, Under the Big Sky: A Biography of A. B. Guthrie Jr. (Nebraska 2009).