Gavin JonesGavin Jones is the Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University, where he has taught American literature since 1999. He is the author of four monographs, most recently Failure and the American Writer: A Literary Histoy (Cambridge, 2014), and Reclaiming John Steinbeck: Writing for the Future of Humanity (Cambridge, 2021). Read More Read Less