“The Grapes of Wrath” details the journey of the Joad family traveling from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Interspersed with depiction of the family’s hardships, ...

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.

Wednesday marks 82 years since the 1939 publication of John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath," by Viking Press in New York City. Susan Shillinglaw, a Steinbeck scholar, wrote a book reflecting ...

Told in Steinbeck’s trademark empathic, colloquial, and observational style, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ is a story of strength, suffering, family, injustice, humanity, and hope in the face of ...

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 ...

John Steinbeck’s epic novel “The Grapes of Wrath” will be brought to life on an intimate new stage by students in the Department of Performing Arts inDrexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of ...

Never one to turn away from a challenge, The Rogue Theatre is taking on the sprawling epic, “The Grapes of Wrath.” John Steinbeck’s 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from which the play is ...

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.

Unearthed Steinbeck Short Story Isn’t at All Like ‘Grapes of Wrath’ The quintessentially American author wrote pieces for a Paris newspaper in the 1950s.

If you’re in trouble or hurt or need, go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.” – Ma Joad in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” (1939) There are no dream homes in ...