Robert DeMott
Robert DeMott is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Ohio University in Athens. He was a founding member of the original Steinbeck Quarterly and has been a long-standing member on the editorial boards of The Steinbeck Newsletter and Steinbeck Review. A former acting director of San Jose State University’s Steinbeck Research Center (1984-1985), he was awarded the National Steinbeck Center’s Trustees Award for significant contributions to Steinbeck Studies in 2006. 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.
Conversations with Jim Harrison
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
Beyond Boundaries
Rereading John Steinbeck
Steinbeck’s Uneasy America
Rereading “Travels with Charley”
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
Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated
Collected interviews the self-titled “quadra schizoid” writer who is best known for his novella Legends of the Fall
Steinbeck’s Imaginarium
Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters
In Steinbeck’s Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck’s artistic career.
- Copyright year: 2022
Steinbeck’s Uneasy America
Rereading “Travels with Charley”
- Copyright year: 2025