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Elizabeth: A Selection of Letters from John Steinbeck to Elizabeth Otis . Florian J. Shasky and Susan F. Riggs, eds. Foreword by Carlton Sheffield. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1978.
    â€”——. Steinbeck: A Life in Letters . Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten, eds. New York: Viking Press, 1975.
    Ward, David S. Cannery Row . Hollywood: MGM, 1982. 120 mins.
    BIOGRAPHIES, MEMOIRS, BACKGROUND, AND APPRECIATIONS
    Note: An exhaustive chronology of Steinbeck’s life is available in Robert DeMott and Brian Railsback, eds., Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947 – 1962 (New York: Library of America, 2007), 955–73. Chief Internet sites devoted to John Steinbeck are http://www.steinbeck.sjsu.edu/home/index.jsp at the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University, and http://www.steinbeck.org at the National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, California. The Cannery Row Foundation, Monterey, California, maintains a useful Web site relevant to the setting, history, and background of Steinbeck’s Monterey novels, http://www.canneryrow.org. Search http://www.topix.net/who/john-steinbeck for regularly updated news on John Steinbeck.

    Astro, Richard. John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts: The Shaping of a Novelist . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974.
    Benson, Jackson J. The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer . New York: Viking Press, 1984.
    Davis, Kathryn M. “Edward F. Ricketts: Man of Science and Conscience.” Steinbeck Studies 15 (Winter 2004): 15–22.
    DeMott, Robert. Steinbeck’s Reading: A Catalogue of Books Owned and Borrowed . New York: Garland Publishing, 1984.
    Hemp, Michael Kenneth. Cannery Row: The History of Old Ocean View Avenue . Monterey, CA: History Company, 1986.
    Leonard, Elmore. “Elmore Leonard on John Steinbeck.” In 20 Years of Publishing America’s Best . Preface by Cheryl Hurley. New York: Library of America, 2002, 9–11.
    Parini, Jay. John Steinbeck: A Biography . New York: Henry Holt, 1995.
    Ricketts, Edward F. Breaking Through: Essays, Journals, and Travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts . Katherine A. Rodger, ed. Foreword by Susan F. Beegel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
    â€”——. Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts . Katharine A. Rodger, ed. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
    Sheffield, Carlton. John Steinbeck, the Good Companion . Terry White, ed. Introduction by R. A. Blum. Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts, 2002.
    Shillinglaw, Susan. A Journey into Steinbeck’s California . Photographs by Nancy Burnett. Berkeley, CA: Roaring Forties Press, 2006.
    Tamm, Eric Enno. Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell . New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2004.
    CAREER OVERVIEWS, REVIEWS, AND REFERENCE WORKS
    Ditsky, John. John Steinbeck and the Critics . Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000.
    Li, Luchen, ed. John Steinbeck: A Documentary Volume . Volume 309 of Dictionary of Literary Biography . Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005.
    McPheron, William. John Steinbeck: From Salinas to Stockholm . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries, 2000.
    Railsback, Brian, and Michael J. Meyer, eds. A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
    Riggs, Susan F. A Catalogue of the John Steinbeck Collection at Stanford University . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries, 1980.
    Schultz, Jeffrey, and Luchen Li, eds. Critical Companion to John Steinbeck: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work . New York: Facts on File, 2005.
    CRITICAL COMMENTARY ON SWEET THURSDAY
    Note: An extensive bibliography of secondary sources on Steinbeck, prepared by Greta Manville for San Jose State University’s Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, is accessible at http://www.steinbeckbibliography.org/index/html.

    Astro, Richard.