John Steinbeck was attacked by many of the most prominent literary critics after the Nobel. John O'Hara said that those critics who had once championed Steinbeck's worse did not defend him. Saul Bellow & Gore Vidal liked his novels.
@@ummbongo1634, I have a rather different take on your PhD. I believe, right or wrong, that all science and commerce exists to support learning such as yours. Good Luck