Includes information on The Grapes of Wrath (film), Of Mice and Men (film), Of Mice and Men (novella), Of Mice and Men (play), The Red Pony (film), etc.

The fiction of origins -- The Stanford years -- In the wilderness -- A young buccaneer -- A true liking -- The heavenly valley -- The sorrow of his house -- The front line of poverty -- Writing the big book -- The road to canonization -- A very personal war -- "The genial famous man" -- An uncertain homecoming -- A new life -- "The pleasure of design and some despair" -- New thinking about writing -- The consolations of a landscape -- It must have been good -- A time for recovery -- "Bright is the ring of words".