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Renaissance man of Cannery Row : the life and letters of Edward F. Ricketts / edited and with an introduction by Katharine A. Rodger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897-1948.
- Series:
- Alabama Fire Ant
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marine biologists--West (U.S.)--Biography.
- Marine biologists.
- Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897-1948.
- Ricketts, Edward Flanders.
- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968--Friends and associates.
- Steinbeck, John.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (340 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This portrait of one of John Steinbeck's closest friends illuminates the life and work of a figure central to the development of scientific and literary thought in the 20th century. 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
- Contents:
- Editor's note
- Introduction
- Biographical essay
- 1936-1938
- 1939-1940
- 1941-1942
- 1943-1945
- 1946-1948
- Works cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8095-7
- OCLC:
- 187297125
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