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 ...

In 1939, “The Grapes of Wrath,” a book by the journalist and author John Steinbeck, stood the nation on its ear with its heart-rending tale of the family Joad and their struggle just to eat. Their ...

The undesirable underbelly of the American Dream has seldom looked as bleak as it does in this version of John Steinbeck’s classic 1939 novel. Frank Galati’s adaption won the 1990 Tony Award for Best ...

As biographer Jackson Benson observed, “When at last he did get into the writing of the final draft of the 'Grapes of Wrath,' he made it a long sprint, rather than a marathon run, and the strain ...

The Smithsonian Associates, in collaboration with the National Steinbeck Center, presents a discussion on how The Grapes of Wrath’s powerful portraits of human perseverance in the face of injustice ...

Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed “The Grapes of Wrath.” The book’s success led to the cancellation of her own book contract. “Riding Like the Wind” tells her life story. By Robert ...

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 still a ...