"A gentle wind followed the rain clouds, driving them on northward, a wind that softly clashed the drying corn," wrote John Steinbeck in Chapter 1 of "The Grapes of Wrath," his Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
Salon: Steinbeck mined her research for “The Grapes of Wrath.” Then her own Dust Bowl novel was squashed
Steinbeck mined her research for “The Grapes of Wrath.” Then her own Dust Bowl novel was squashed
Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Local author’s new book celebrates the woman whose research Steinbeck cribbed for ‘The Grapes of Wrath’
Local author’s new book celebrates the woman whose research Steinbeck cribbed for ‘The Grapes of Wrath’
Yahoo: Editorial: The day Chicago got a dusty taste of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’
Editorial: The day Chicago got a dusty taste of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’
AOL: The Grapes of Wrath review: Steinbeck’s hymn to human misery and endurance is epic but scrappy on stage
John Steinbeck’s classic The Grapes of Wrath might be a bona fide Great American Novel but there’s something deeply un-American about its values. Dreaming isn’t enough, it argues. The system is rigged ...
The Grapes of Wrath review: Steinbeck’s hymn to human misery and endurance is epic but scrappy on stage
When Steinbeck set off to write The Grapes of Wrath in the 1930s, his goal was crystal clear. He wanted to shame the ruling class, denounce their capitalistic greed that led to the Great Depression ...
I hadn’t read John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” for 50 years, until now. In it, the Joad family is forced to leave Oklahoma with hundreds of thousands of others during “The Dust Bowl” of the 1930s.