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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

AMC to Develop Great Depression-Era Novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ as Part of Next Franchise Bet. The studio hopes that "Great American Stories" will become an anthology franchise, ripped from ...

A TV series about the Great Depression not set in the present will launch a new AMC/AMC+ anthology. AMC Networks announced on Monday that Great American Stories, a new TV franchise produced by AMC ...

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 ...

Lyric Theatre's production of "Mother Road" is a sequel to John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," following the Joad family's descendants nearly 90 years later.

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 ...

By June 1939, "The Grapes of Wrath" had sold over 200,000 copies, and film rights to the book had been sold for $75,000. Steinbeck’s fame, which had already been solidified by his bestselling ...