Robert DeMott

Robert DeMott is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Ohio University in Athens. DeMott is the author of Steinbeck’s Reading: A Catalogue of Books Owned and Borrowed and Steinbeck’s Typewriter: Essays on His Art. He is also the editor of Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath and the Library of America’s four-volume edition of Steinbeck’s works.

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Conversations with Jim Harrison

Edited by Robert DeMott
University Press of Mississippi

The first-ever collection of interviews with this well-known, prolific writer whose books include twenty-two volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published over a period of thirty-six years

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Beyond Boundaries

Rereading John Steinbeck

University of Alabama Press

The result of a worldwide effort to assess both the current state of critical understanding of John Steinbeck’s works and the extent of his cultural influence
 

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Steinbeck’s Uneasy America

Rereading “Travels with Charley”

University of Alabama Press

The first scholarly assessment of Steinbeck’s bestselling travelogue Travels with Charley, published in 1962, a narrative that blurs the lines between nonfiction and fiction

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated

Edited by Robert DeMott
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews the self-titled “quadra schizoid” writer who is best known for his novella Legends of the Fall

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Steinbeck’s Imaginarium

Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Steinbeck’s Uneasy America

Rereading “Travels with Charley”

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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