Of Men and Their Making

‘To read this honest, surprising and stirring collection is to read Steinbeck at his finest’ 
Robert Edric, Spectator

Edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Jackson J. Benson

‘A constant delight, a generous, open-hearted vaudeville show of a book that switches from elegantly crafted memoirs to frivolous pieces on fishing or Fords, from thrilling reportage to sinewy meditations on politics and culture … swings between high ideas and street life without missing a beat’ 
Boyd Tonkin, Independent

‘A revelation, because of the brilliant window it opens on to Steinbeck’s life and world … From the earliest writing to the latest in this collection there is the same beauty and simplicity, the same directness and honesty’ 
A. C. Grayling, Financial Times

‘Extraordinary … Steinbeck’s pieces on [the] doomed migration and ensuing deprivation that faced the Dust Bowl refugees … convey his barely reined-in fury at the situation’s in-built injustice’ 
Alex Clark, Guardian