ABSTRACT
Schramm (b. 1907) began his career as a reporter for Associated Press (1924–30). He eventually pioneered creative writing and mass communications programmes at the University of Iowa. Editor of American Literature in 1946, he has also written numerous books about the mass media. Also reviewed were Thomas Wolfe's The Web and the Rock, published posthumously, and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Schramm believed Steinbeck to be ‘the most promising young novelist in America’.
