... clear from the first that Steinbeck would never be "a literary naturalist" despite his interest in biology (French 57). In 1947, Snell thought Steinbeck still gave promise of being the "most gifted all-around novelist" (French 57). Lincoln Gibbs' "John Steinbeck: Moralist" is one of the few essays to handle the question of the morality of Steinbeck's fiction without revealing that the ... that Steinbeck's writings extends one's knowledge of men beyond the "expedient range" of experience and makes for "a fuller realization of democracy" (Tedlock 22). Steinbeck has not fared well in the h...

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