John Steinbeck’s 1939 book ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ humanized the “Okies,” captured history as it was happening, and earned its author so much personal trouble that he started carrying a ...

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.

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.

AMC is developing a new anthology series, with the first season set to be an adaptation of the iconic John Steinbeck novel “The Grapes of Wrath.”. The announcement was made by AMC Networks ...

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 ...

On September 3, Steinbeck’s wife Carol came up with the title “The Grapes of Wrath,” an allusion to Revelations 14:19–20 and a verse from “Battle Hymn of the Republic” by Julia Ward Howe.