Introduced by Robert Robinson
'... I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags - tried to write this book the way lives are being lived, not the way books are written ' - from a letter by John Steinbeck about The Grapes of Wrath which appears in a new collection Steinbeck: A Life in Letters. His third wife, Elaine Steinbeck , who helped edit the collection, is in the studio.
Also a look at bestsellers in the textbook industry, from Kennedy's Latin Primer to the 56 million copies sold of English textbooks by Ronald Ridout.
Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT
Executive producer WILL WYATT