— Down by the Lemonade Springs, Essays on Wallace Stegner

— Looking for Steinbeck's Ghost

— The Ox-Bow Man, A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Jackson J. Benson was professor of Enlgish and comparative literature at San Diego State University until his retirement in 1997. He is the author of twelve books on modern American literature and currently divides his time between Las Mesa, California, and a cabin in the northern Sierra Nevada.