Harold, Bloom.
American Poetry 1015 to 1945
. New Haven: Chelsea House Publisher, 1987. Interesting analysis of L. Hughes poetical style and evolution.
Farstrup, Alan E.,Samuels S. Jay. eds.
What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction
. Newark: International Reading Association, 2002.
Duke, Nell K., Pearson P. David.
Effective Practices for Developing Reading Comprehension
. Farstrup and Samuels 205-236. A compelling chapter where the authors analyze, compare and contrast the validity of various strategies teachers use for an effective reading comprehension.
French, Warren, G.
John Steinbeck’s Fiction Revisited
. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994. Analysis of Steinbeck’s main themes: allegory, nonteological thinking, affinity to the nineteenth-century American Transcendentalists - Emerson and Thoreau.
Geroge, Stephen, K. Heavilin, B. A.
John Steinbeck and His contemporaries
. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2007. Interesting collection of comparative studies on various issues like ethnicity and moral philosophy.
Goldstein, Malcom.
The Political Stage. American Drama and Theater of the Great Depression
. New York: Oxford University press, 1974. Analysis of the Group Theater’s influence (Odets was included too) and their Marxist interpretation, or association with the far Left.
Hughes, Langston.
Vintage Hughes
. Estate of Langston Hughes: Randon House, 1995
The entire collections of Langston Hughes’ poems and short stories.
Jackson, Blyden, Rubin, Louis, D.
Black Poetry in America
. Charlotte: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. Analysis of Black American writing as simple American life or experience.
Kordich, Catherine, J.
Bloom’s How to Write about John Steinbeck
. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2008. Interesting text focusing on how to write about Steinbeck’s main themes, issues, form, genre, symbols, and imagery.
Krutch, Joseph. W.
The American Drama Since 1918
. An Informal History. New York: George Braziller Inc., 1957. Interesting account and critical evaluation of playwriting in America since the World War.
Murray, Davis, R.
Steinbeck. A Collection of Critical Essays
. London: Prentice Hall, 1972. Interesting collections of essays with various perspectives of Steinbeck’s works.
Nagel, Paul, C.
George Caleb Bingham: Missouri’s Famed Painter and Forgotten Politician
. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. Accurate bibliography and analysis of the gifted artist and fervent supporter of democracy.
Odets, Clifford.
Waiting for Lefty
. New York: Dramatist Play Service, 1962. A vivid representation of union men and other discouraged workers.
Owens, Louis.
John Steinbeck’s Re-vision of America
. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. Analysis of Steinbeck’s major works with specific emphasis on those set in California. Interesting interpretation of the Eden myth in America.
Steinbeck, John.
The Grapes of Wrath
. New York: Penguin, 2002. A portrait of the social conflict and injustices in the Great Depression.