Not only that, but at this point, I think it’s safe to say that I’m very much a “car person.” In high school, I read “East ...

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, h ...

But that long and dusty tradition, immortalized in John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” and the photos of Dorothea Lange, is fading. New research reveals a profound change in the nature of the ...

5. The title of The Grapes of Wrath comes from “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Steinbeck’s wife, Carol, thought of taking The Grapes of Wrath from “The Battle Hymn of the Republic ...

After his two previous starts to the novel in late May 1938, Steinbeck began rapidly writing what would become the iconic book about the Dust Bowl: "The Grapes of Wrath." He wrote it fast ...

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.

In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck awakened the American conscience to the hapless life of the migrant farm worker. That was exactly 30 years ago. The stoop laborer in the fields today is ...

AMC is developing a new anthology series, with the first season set to be an adaptation of the iconic John Steinbeck novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” The announcement was made by AMC Networks ...

First up on the list? John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.” The novel tells the story of the Joad family during the Great Depression, as they struggle through poverty, the effects of the ...