Scott Bradfield

John Steinbeck based “The Grapes of Wrath” on Sanora Babb’s notes. But she was writing her own American epic.

After "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," the nightmare of American familyhood was the only game in town.

A sweeping new history traces the rise of characters caught in a Manichaean struggle between good and evil.

Why did readers search for deeper meaning in the adventures of Snoopy and the gang?