Clell Pruett burns a copy of The Grapes Of Wrath as Bill Camp and another leader of the Associated Farmers stand by. At the time this photograph was taken, Pruett had not read the novel. Years ...

In John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” the Joad family doesn’t just migrate west. They drive there. And in certain parts, their car isn’t an extra. It’s a co-star.

What’s your favorite book?” I was asked the other day, a simple question that is calculus-difficult to answer.

Susan Shillinglaw has not only written extensively on Steinbeck, she has also taught “The Grapes of Wrath” to many, many college students over her long teaching career. In this book she ...

Author Williams’ world is an inevitable reminder of John Steinbeck’s dustbowl refugees in The Grapes of Wrath, but she has incurred no literary debt.

The Indy Book Club: ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ shows kindness can endure even the most hostile conditions The second pick in our new fortnightly book club, this 1939 American epic asks what is it ...

Steinbeck mined her research for “The Grapes of Wrath.” Then her own Dust Bowl novel was squashed Migrant camp worker Sanora Babb wrote what could have been the era's definitive book. Instead ...

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 ...

Local author’s new book celebrates the woman whose research Steinbeck cribbed for ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ Sebastopol writer and poet Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s new biography explores the life and ...