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Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

6/1/1971 - 8/31/1973

Funding Totals

$16,172.00 (approved)
$16,172.00 (awarded)

Edward F. Ricketts and the Fiction of John Steinbeck

FAIN: RO-11037-71

Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR 97331-8655)
Richard B. Astro (Project Director: June 1971 to present)

To study the relationship between the unpublished essays and correspondence of John Steinbeck's closest personal friend, Edward F. Ricketts, and the thematic base of the novelist's fiction. This study will seek to clarify the serious existing critical misconceptions about Steinbeck's view of man and the world.