The World of Dr. Justice: John Steinbeck

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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Sick Okie (fixin’ t’ die)

her eyes wide and bright

-- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Okies on the Run (Impending Weather)

nervous as horses before a thunderstorm

-- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Carmel River monostich

Frogs blink from its banks

[from: John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (1945).]

About the Author

David Justice studied French at the Sorbonne, mathematics and physics at Harvard and MIT, and math and linguistics at Berkeley. He is the author of The Semantics of Form in Arabic, in the Mirror of European Languages; and of the fictional works I Don’t Do Divorce Cases (which includes stories originally published in Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine) and Murphy on the Mount. He taught French at Berkeley, and linguistics at the University of Alberta, then worked at Merriam-Webster as Editor of Etymology (where he edited Webster’s Book of Word Histories) and as Editor of Pronunciation. He subsequently was editor-in-chief at Franklin Electronic Publishers. He is currently employed as a language analyst, and consultant for the University of Maryland. He lives with his bride of forty years, overlooking a peaceful lake.