After Steinbeck's death, these letters were published in Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters. The right-hand pages contained the novel the left-hand pages were dated letters to Steinbeck's long-time editor and friend, Pascal 'Pat' Covici. Over the course of one year, he wrote East of Eden in pencil in a blank book.
Steinbeck knew he would be a defining presence in this story and not "for one moment pretend not to be." He also wanted to stress the writer's roles as the creator of the fictive voice. From the beginning, Steinbeck knew that his voice would be more apparent in this book than in any other because he wanted it to contain everything he remembered to be true. Steinbeck not only told his family's stories, he also wrote himself into East of Eden as a narrator and character. The story he wanted to tell was as much fiction as it was his family's biography. Critics (and his publisher) were anxiously awaiting another Grapes of Wrath, but Steinbeck would not be rushed. John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel A Labor of Loveįor years, Steinbeck had wanted to write about his mother's family, the Hamiltons, and the Salinas Valley.
They are mine and I can do what I like with them." "It is a strange feeling to be taking people who are close to me apart and putting them on paper.
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