Thomas Steinbeck, the eldest son of Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and a prominent author and screenwriter in his own right, died Thursday at his Santa Barbara home. He was 72. “Th… ...

A trio of artists soon will travel from Oklahoma to California, retracing the steps the Joad family from "The Grapes of Wrath" took as part of the upcoming 75th anniversary of John Steinbeck's novel.

Seventy-five years ago this month, John Steinbeck published his masterwork, <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i>. An indelible saga of Oklahoma farmers migrating to California after being displaced by the ...

The late John Steinbeck’s literature is not just a critical part of the American literary canon, but intrinsic to American identity itself. With every deeply relatable, ordinary protagonist ...

It is likely, but by no means certain, that in May 1938, the writers John Steinbeck and Sanora Babb met in a café near Arvin, California. Both were in town to chronicle the plight of migrants who ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks is in talks with the estate of author John Steinbeck to make a new version of The Grapes Of Wrath. The novel was turned into a classic 1940 film by John Ford, the director ...

The writer has only one living blood relative, a granddaughter called Blake Smyle, daughter of his other son John Steinbeck, IV, who is not involved in the case. Under an agreement reached in 1983 ...