# Journal of a Novel, Vol. 1

By **John Steinbeck**

- ISBN-13: 9780670409396
- Publisher: Viking Books
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 182
- Published: 20 Dec 1969

## About this book

Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his way, he said, of getting my mental arm in shape to pitch a good game. Steinbeck's letters were written on the

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