![]() ![]() He wrote during his intermittent sessions at Stanford University. He wrote for the Salinas, California, high school paper, El Gabilan, in 1919, when he was president of the senior class and on the basketball and track teams. When he was four, he discovered, to his flabbergasted delight, that “high” rhymed with “ fly,” and from that day to this the permutations and combinations of words have charmed and fascinated him. Steinbeck has been interested in writing as long as he can remember. Nonetheless, in John Steinbeck’s letters to his literary agents, McIntosh and Otis, covering almost fifteen years of partnership in creative writing, appears a singularly honest and revealing record of what John Steinbeck himself thought about what he was writing, when he was writing it. Biography by its very nature must be half fiction.” I can’t remember how much of me really happened and how much I invented. ![]() To inquirers for biographical data he has been known to reply: “Please feel free to make up your own facts about me as you need them. He would be the last man to affirm or to deny it. ![]() CRITICS have had a holiday detecting exotic symbolisms in John Steinbeck’s work. ![]()
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