![]() ![]() That he witnessed, and he channeled that fury as he wrote The Grapes of Wrath. Was infuriated and disgusted by the amount of heartbreak and suffering Various migrant worker camps in towns like Bakersfield and Visalia, and He spent a whole lot of time getting to know families who lived in Series of seven articles about migrant worker communities for the San Francisco Chronicle. To California in search of a better life, Steinbeck was writing a The time of the Dust Bowl, when tens of thousands of Americans migrated This understanding of society's ills is razor sharp, and cuts deep.Īnd a lot of that has to do with the fact that this novel is brutally honest. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and helped John Steinbeck nab the Nobel Prize in 1962-they gave Steinbeck the Nobel for (among other things) his "keen social perception."Īnd you don't get much keener than the social perception showcased in Grapes. pass to every "Top 100 Books of All Time" list in the universe. The Grapes of Wrath pretty much has a V.I.P. ![]()
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