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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8373 Steinbeck, John. To a God Unknown. 1933.

The idea for To a God Unknown was borrowed from the plot line of a play written by Webster Street, Steinbeck's close friend at Stanford University. The initial draft was begun in the fall and winter of 1928 and originally had the same title as Street's play: The Green Lady . However, after writing over 100 pages, Steinbeck abandoned the project and decided to approach it on his own and not to list his friend as the co-author. Later however, after composing some short stories, he returned to the project in December of the same year, making significant changes in both the character names and the location of the setting. The manuscript, now titled To The Unknown (later an Unknown ) God , also presented different conflicts. Though he initially submitted the novel in 1930 to his first publisher, Robert McBride, Steinbeck withdrew it in 1931 and began to focus his efforts on The Pastures of Heaven (an interrelated short story cycle

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10181 Drinkwater, John. The God of Quiet. 1915.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11772 Wharton, Edith. The Gods Arrive. 1932.

Please see our People Table entry on this author.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11778 Mosley, Nicholas. Inventing God. 2003.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12380 Robins, Elizabeth. The Mills of the Gods. 1920.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12710 Fox, Paula. The God of Nightmares. 1990.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14581 Buber, Martin. Eclipse of God. 1952.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=15234 Empson, William. Milton's God. 1961.

See our entry on William Empson.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=19933 Lonsdale, Frederick. But for the Grace of God. 1946.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=20218 Asimov, Isaac. The Gods Themselves. 1972.