“I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit”*…
Richard Wright and his Royal Arrow
Men (and women) and their machines: “Writers and their typewriters.”
* P.G. Wodehouse
Wodehouse and his Royal Electric
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As we let our fingers dance, we might send carefully-composed birthday greetings to John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.; he was born on this date in 1902. The author of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories, he is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Red Pony (1937). The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck’s masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14 million copies. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Steinbeck’s Hermes Baby