Teaching Steinbeck

Aids to understanding Steinbeck's works are intended for teachers and for students of all ages. The left-hand navigation provides access to overviews and to a variety of activities, synopses, character descriptions and glossaries relating to each work.

Coming Soon:  Entries for Burning Bright, Cannery Row, East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, Journal of a Novel, Moon is Down, The Pearl, Russian Journal, To a God Unknown, Working Days, and Winter of Our Discontent.

Materials in this area of the website have been created by teachers and scholars collaborating together. One of the leaders of this effort is Kathleen Hicks, instructor at Arizona State University. Barbara Heavilin, Susan Shillinglaw, Martha Heasley Cox, Paul Douglass, Robert DeMott, and numerous others have contributed over the years to what is found here. The Center expresses its gratitude to them, and to the following who assisted in the labor: Erin Paquette, David Mangin, John Callahan, Charles Zeeb, Nicole Nixen, Christina Harney, Kate Hicks, Elizabeth Dern, and Karyn Riedell.