Susan Shillinglaw
Professor emerita and leading Steinbeck scholar who directed the Center for Steinbeck Studies and the National Steinbeck Center, author of books on Steinbeck including On Reading the Grapes of Wrath.
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Feb 12, 2026 • 57min
Susan Shillinglaw on John Steinbeck
Susan Shillinglaw, Professor emerita and leading Steinbeck scholar, guides a lively tour of Steinbeck’s life and craft. She contrasts his 1930s path with Hemingway’s, explores Grapes of Wrath’s interchapters and documentary ties, reads The Red Pony as a coming-of-age tale, and traces wartime witnessing, postwar trauma in Cannery Row, and Steinbeck’s experimental parables.
