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.
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
Steinbeck’s Uneasy America
Rereading “Travels with Charley”
- Copyright year: 2025
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
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
Beyond Boundaries
Rereading John Steinbeck
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