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Yes, Steinbeck Wrote a Werewolf Novel. Donât Expect to Read It.
A scholar of American literature at Stanford says itâs worth publishing. The agents representing the Steinbeck estate strongly disagree.
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May 27, 2021
Nine years before John Steinbeck published his Pulitzer Prize-winning historical masterpiece, âThe Grapes of Wrath,â he was working on a lighthearted detective novel featuring a werewolf.
The manuscript, âMurder at Full Moon,â was completed in 1930 but was never published. A single copy has been sitting, mostly forgotten, in an archive in Texas since 1969. It includes drawings by Steinbeck himself.
A scholar of American literature at Stanford University is pushing for the book to be published, but the agents for Steinbeckâs estate vehemently refused this week, after the effort was featured in The Guardian.
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Unearthing a lost novel from a titanic writer’s dusty desk drawer is every reader’s dream, but that dream comes true all too infrequently. Yet somehow 2021 is shaping up to be a banner year for lost novels, with Richard Wright’s long-buried novel of police brutality
resurrected this spring and Simone de Beauvoir’s abandoned novel of girlhood interrupted on its way this fall. Just when readers thought the year couldn’t get any better, news of another unpublished novel has come along to dazzle us all: John Steinbeck’s lost werewolf novel.
Yes, you read that right. Nobel Prize winner and giant of American letters John Steinbeck wrote a werewolf mystery titled
Did You Know John Steinbeck Wrote an Unpublished Werewolf Novel?
Years before he found award-winning success, John Steinbeck wrote a werewolf novel called MURDER AT FULL MOON that has never been published! Reclaiming John Steinbeck: Writing for the Future of Humanity.
The book reveals that, years before Steinbeck became a famous writer best known for his novels about life during the Great Depression, he wrote a werewolf novel called
Murder at Full Moon (which the author wrote under a pen name: Peter Pym). Unable to find publication,
Murder at Full Moon has been archived at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin.