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 ...

“She spent years getting to the point where she wrote her first novel and she tried to send it to all these other places and no one would accept I because ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ was an ...

Outstanding Actor - Play: Gary Sinise was nominated but did not win. Outstanding Featured Actor - Play : Francis Guinan was nominated but did not win. 1990 Outer Critics Circle Awards Best Actor ...

In April 1939, Steinbeck published “The Grapes of Wrath,” drawing liberally from those notes. The book sold hundreds of thousands of copies in the first few months, and would go on to win the ...

Darryl Hickman, a child actor in Leave Her to Heaven and The Grapes of Wrath, died at 92 on Wednesday, May 22, his family ...

Before “Grapes of Wrath” chronicled the life of migrant workers in California, Kansas City had the Federal Transient Camp ...

John Steinbeck beat Sanora Babb to the great American Dust Bowl novel—using her field notes. What do we owe her today?

From Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath to Ian Frazier’s Great Plains, to Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon, there’s something uniquely American about a long-distance road trip book.

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login From John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' and Martha Ostenso's 'Wild Geese' to Louis Hémon's 'Maria Chapdelaine', some of the most famous ...