20th Century Popular Works continued

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John Steinbeck (1902-1968).

The Grapes of Wrath.  Introduction by Studs Terkel.  New York: Viking, 1989.


First published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath follows the troubles and travels of the Joads, who were driven from Oklahoma by drought and economic troubles to find a new home in California.  Steinbeck based this Pulitzer-Prize winning work on his experiences reporting on migrant workers for the San Francisco News.

 

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America as Americans See It. Edited by Fred J. Ringel; Illustrated by over 100 American artists.  New York: The Literary Guild, c1932.

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Peter S. Beagle.

I See by my Outfit.  New York: Penguin Books, 1985.  Originally published in 1963.

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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969).

On the Road.  New York: Penguin Books, 1991.


Kerouac’s highly influential novel On the Road is a fictionalized autobiography of his American road trip in 1947.  Considered one of the defining works of the Beat generation, Kerouac’s characters traipse across America into Mexico, exploring jazz, sex, and drugs in a search for God.  Kerouac wrote On the Road in 1951, but was unable to get it published until 1957.

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Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986).

America Day by Day. 
Translated by Carol Cosman; foreword by Douglas Brinkley.  Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999.



In January 1947, Simone de Beauvoir arrived in New York to begin a four-month journey across the United States.  America Day by Day, a translation of her 1948 work Amérique au Jour le Jour, describes her journey by bus, train, and car as she immerses herself in American life.  Beauvoir was a French existentialist known for work Le Deuxième Sexe, a major work of feminism, and other novels.

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Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962).

Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality. 
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987, c1965.

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D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930).

Mornings in Mexico.  Salt Lake City: G.M. Smith, 1982, c1927.



Mabel Ganson, a New York socialite, writer, and patron of the arts, was an important builder of early 20th century artist communities in the United States and abroad.  Her New York salons were attended Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman, and others.  In 1919, Mabel moved out to Taos, New Mexico, eventually marrying her third husband Tony Luhan, and establishing an art scene at Taos.  Her network in Taos included Willa Cather, Georgia O’Keeffe, and D.H. Lawrence, who visited Luhan in 1922.  The Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality is an autobiographical account of Mabel’s transformation and she explores New Mexico and Native American life.


D.H. Lawrence, best known for his works Women in Love and Lady Chatterley’s Lover, wrote some of the travel narratives in Mornings in Mexico while visiting Mabel Dodge Luhan at Taos, New Mexico.

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Larry McMurtry (b. 1936).

Roads: Driving America's Great Highways.
  New York: Simon & Schuster, c2000.



Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and one of the screenwriters for Brokeback Mountain, was raised in a landlocked area of Texas where highways were the only way to explore beyond his home.  Before the turn of the century, McMurtry hit the road to travel to places central to his work and life, and describes his experiences in Roads.