Autograph letter signed : [Sag Harbor, New York], to Max Lerner, [1965 Dec. 4].

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Autograph letter signed : [Sag Harbor, New York], to Max Lerner, [1965 Dec. 4].

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Replying to a column by New York Post writer, Max Lerner, in which he wondered why Steinbeck had become a columnist; explaining why he is writing this series of letters; saying "Who knows why we write columns and books or paint pictures? It may be the dark working of an anthropophagic egomania and it might also be as innocent as a child's skipping. I don't intend to inquire. I'll simply try to catch them as they go by."

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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