Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of E...
Ricketts, Edward F. / Rodger, Katharine A. / Rodger, Katharine A.
Marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts is perhaps best known as the inspiration for John Steinbeck's most empathic literary characters Doc in "Cannery Row, " Slim in "Of Mice and Men, " Jim Casy in "The Grapes of Wrath, " and Lee in "East of Eden." The correspondence of this accomplished scientist, writer, and philosopher reveals the influential exchange of ideas he shared with such prominent thinkers and artists as Henry Miller, Joseph Campbell,...