Swedish Academy Reopens Controversy Surrounding Steinbeck's Nobel Prize

Thursday 23rd May

Posted at 8:23AM Friday 04 Jan 2013

Archives reveal that John Steinbeck, who beat Robert Graves and Lawrence Durrell to the Nobel laureateship in 1962, was a compromise choice.

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