Steinbeck is one of a series of American Authors that have been published in the Modern Classics series...

James Baldwin

“At his peak he had the beautiful fervour of Camus of Kafka. Like them he revealed….the core of the soul's savage distress” William Styron

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Saul Bellow

“Bellow has a Dickensian zest for description and caricaturing of individual human beings; and he has a deep understanding of the general state of man's mind and spirit in the twentieth century” The Observer

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Truman Capote

I truthfully feel none of us have anyone to blame for whatever we have done with our own personal lives. It has been proven that at the age of seven most of us have reached the age of reason - which means we do, at this age, understand & know the difference between right & wrong.
From In Cold Blood

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Allen Ginsberg

"Allen Ginsberg was the exemplary avant-garde figure of the post-war world. In verse, in politics, in his own intimate life…. Ginsberg resisted and disdained the orthodox, the social lie. Few people have done as much to make non-conformism respectable in our time as he did.' Guardian

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Jack Kerouac

“Kerouac's energy is contagious, his compassion and concern are the genuine homespun article” Guardian

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Dorothy Parker

“It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.” Dorothy Parker