Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
7.6
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
36222
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
237
Points per Page
0.025316
Series
Up Close (Viking)
Description
A complicated man, Steinbeck fought his way through three marriages, was a distant father, and battled with alcoholism. He wrote because he was compelled to, yet he always doubted his abilities and lived in fear of never writing a decent book.