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Selected by NYU as one of the century's best books of American journalism.

Gathered in this volume are seven long-form articles that John Steinbeck wrote in 1936 for The San Francisco News about the plight of migrant farmworkers during the Dust Bowl, accompanied... Read Full Overview

A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California's Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath.

Three years before his triumphant novel The Grapes of Wrath - a fictional portrayal of a Depression-era family fleeing Oklahoma... Read Full Overview

A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California's Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath.

Three years before his triumphant novel The Grapes of Wrath - a fictional portrayal of a Depression-era family fleeing Oklahoma... Read Full Overview

A collection of newspaper articles written by Steinbeck before the publication of The Grapes of Wrath.