![]() ![]() It’s impossible to understand the Joads or what they symbolize without understanding the Dust Bowl. In telling the story of the Joads, Steinbeck-who would win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962-captures the sentiment of a pivotal period in American history, one at the intersection of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the shaping of the American West. The Joads join thousands of other migrants on the trek to the Salinas Valley of California, a place they idealize as rich with opportunity. ![]() In the novel, John Steinbeck follows the fictional journey of the Joads, a family of sharecroppers from Sallisaw, Oklahoma, forced to migrate west during the Dust Bowl. April 14, 2014, marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Grapes of Wrath. ![]()
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