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Aug 27, 2022 · The grapes of wrath. by. Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) Publication date. 1962. Publisher. New York : Viking Press. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
Among the hardest-hit victims of the Great Depression were farmers. Dust storms in the Great Plains drove thousands of agricultural workers westward to California in hopes of finding work and new farms. John Steinbeck wrote about their problems in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Excerpts from the 1939 novel follow.
1939: Steinbeck writes The Grapes of Wrath; published to popular acclaim in April. 1940s 1940: Steinbeck wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath. 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. 1943: Steinbeck works with Alfred Hitchcock on Lifeboat. 1945: World War II ends. Steinbeck's sons are born: Thom in 1944, John IV in 1946.
Mar 28, 2006 · Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, The Grapes of...
Mein Kampf was #3 in non-fiction. ABA National Book Awards for 1939 honored Grapes as “The Booksellers’ Favor-ite Novel.”. The ABA honored Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo as “The Most Original Book of the Year.”. The Grapes of Wrath received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, May 6, 1940.
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.
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