This correspondence between Dag Hammarskjold and the American novelist John Steinbeck further documents Hammarskjöld’s impressively wide knowledge of the arts. Steinbeck and Hammarskjöld were brought together by their mutual friend Bo Beskow, and correspondence show that Steinbeck felt a deep admiration for a man in a position of great authority, who brought to that office a temperament and character for which Steinbeck often looked but which he too seldom found — that of the natural leader, the truly moral man who could instinctively be trusted to put the public good before everything else.
Publication
The Dag Hammarskjöld – John Steinbeck Correspondence
Issue no.1997:2(39) of Development Dialogue presents letters of correspondence between Dag Hammarskjold and the American novelist John Steinbeck, offering unique insight into two great men.