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 ...

Potential witnesses include Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and James Franco. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large On Aug. 29, the descendants of the late great American novelist John Steinbeck will ...

During this pandemic and era of political unrest, I have found it easy to feel as though our world and our nation is enduring unprecedented times. While surely most of us have never lived through the ...

On April 14, John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” celebrates its 80th year. The 1939 novel remains a quintessential piece of American literature still read in homes and classrooms throughout the ...

SALINAS, Calif. — Outside the John Steinbeck Library here, a life-size statue of the hometown legend and Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” sports a somber new ...

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 ...

Decades before Chloé Zhao won the Golden Globe for directing 'Nomadland,' John Ford's adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel earned Academy Awards for best director and best supporting actress (Jane ...

At the end of John Steinbeck’s epic 1939 novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” disillusioned “Okie” Tom Joad leaves his family in Central California to devote himself to social justice for workers. But what if ...