John Steinbeck allowing Steinbeck to spend a full day on the set of "The Grapes of Wrath" and the next day on the set of "Of Mice and Men." In the 1930s and 1940s, Ed Ricketts strongly influenced Steinbeck's writing. Steinbeck frequently took small trips with Ricketts along the California coast to give himself time off from his writing and to collect biological specimens, which Ricketts sold for a living. Their joint book about a collecting expedition to the Gulf of California in 1940, which was part travelogue and part natural history, published just as the U.S. entered World War II, never
John Perkins (author) and Omar Torrijos of Panama, had been assassinated and the US government had been involved, adding "I know. I was there." Perkins's books on mystical aspects of indigenous cultures, including shamanism, include: John Perkins also appeared in "Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene." See link John Perkins (author) John Perkins (born January 28, 1945) is an American author. His best known book is "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" (2004), in which Perkins claims to have played a role in an alleged process of economic colonization of Third World countries on behalf of what he portrays as a cabal