William Souder’s books include biographies of John Steinbeck, Rachel Carson (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year) and John James Audubon (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). He lives in Grant, Minnesota.
"[Mad at the World] highlights the staggering amount of work he
[Steinbeck] fitted into his overflowing life... highly
readable..."
*The Sunday Times*
"William Souder’s Mad at the World is the first significant
biography of Steinbeck since Jackson L. Benson’s... The True
Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer. It is readable, admiring and
compact, and provides a narratively energetic look at a man who
suffered many of the same weaknesses as his characters — for booze,
benzedrine, depression and bad marriages... Souder writes well, and
this is a good place to start reading (or rereading) about
Steinbeck."
*Scott Bradfield - The Spectator*
"A comprehensive new biography of America’s best-known novelist of
the Great Depression arrives at a timely moment."
*17 New Books to Watch For in October - The New York Times*
"Souder’s sympathy for
Steinbeck… is most effective and eloquent in his depiction of the
California
landscape or of the sea, which he describes as swimming with small
pelagic
crabs “like a crimson carpet spread across an ocean the color of
lapis lazuli"."
*Brenda Wineapple - The New York Times Book Review*
"Painstakingly researched, psychologically
nuanced, unshowy, lucid... [Souder] has brought a deeply human
Steinbeck forth
in all his flawed, melancholy, brilliant complication."
*Alex Kafka - The Washington Post*
"[An] appreciative yet clear-eyed assessment."
*Wendy Smith - The Boston Globe*
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