Charley Camper -Rocinante

A Trip Takes Us: My Journey from Poe to Steinbeck

  After retiring, I began to study, teach, and write reflections on several of the most significant American writers of the last two centuries. I started my focus on the

Of Mice and Men: Steinbeck Introduces Readers to the Unfamiliar

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902. Like his literary contemporary, Ernest Hemingway, Steinbeck concentrated on writing about the familiar settings, characters, and complex situations that he had