Allison’s review of Dogging Steinbeck: How I Went in Search of John Steinbeck's America, Found My Own America, and Exposed the Truth about 'Travels with Charley' > Likes and Comments
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Steinbeck always said TWC was a novel, it was the critics who decided it was "autobiography."
Steinbeck never said it was a novel. Neither did his publisher, Viking Press. TWC was marketed, sold, reviewed and taught as a work of nonfiction from 1962 to 2012 -- when the publisher -- solely because of my 'truth' and reporting' -- had to change its introduction to alert readers that they were about to read a work of fiction, not nonfiction.
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Oct 12, 2017 09:31AM
Steinbeck always said TWC was a novel, it was the critics who decided it was "autobiography."
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Steinbeck never said it was a novel. Neither did his publisher, Viking Press. TWC was marketed, sold, reviewed and taught as a work of nonfiction from 1962 to 2012 -- when the publisher -- solely because of my 'truth' and reporting' -- had to change its introduction to alert readers that they were about to read a work of fiction, not nonfiction.
