The Grapes of
Wrath
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Typescript for The Grapes of Wrath
with copy-editing marks, 1939
Manuscript Division
Gift of Frank J. Hogan, 1941 (61A.8)
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John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1939 novel The
Grapes of Wrath, where he documents a national tragedy by
tracing one family's exodus from Oklahoma because of the great "dust
bowl" disaster. The naturalistic style delivered a message that
shocked the nation and exposed the exploited masses of the Depression
Era. Steinbeck was instrumental in changing laws to benefit the
working classes. For this and subsequent novels, he was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
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