![]() 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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