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Richard Astro

Richard Astro, PhD, is a distinguished professor of English at Drexel. He has written and edited books on John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Bernard Malamud, as well as dozens of articles on other influential twentieth-century American writers. He founded the National Consortium for Academics and Sports in 1984.

NOW AVAILABLE: An Educator’s Guide to a Selection of John Steinbeck’s Nonfiction Works

From the Introduction: John Steinbeck wasn’t necessarily talking about being an adolescent when he wrote his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he received in 1962, but some things in that speech still resonate with my students. “Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion,” he said, alluding

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