John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

Novel depicting a family's struggle to survive the Great Depression in California

About the author

John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was the compassionate chronicler of America's dispossessed, especially the migrant farmworkers of California's Central Valley. The Grapes of Wrath earned him both the Pulitzer Prize and, later, the Nobel Prize.

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