John Steinbeck based “The Grapes of Wrath” on Sanora Babb’s notes. But she was writing her own American epic.

A celebrated chronicler of human suffering, John Steinbeck could not abide other people.

What the bureau’s decades-long surveillance of the international celebrity reveals about the U.S. government’s Cold War pathologies

John Steinbeck and Robert Capa's 1947 trip through Eastern Europe introduced America to Soviet life. Last year, two journalists retraced their steps.

Letters in response to a questioning of Steinbeck's artistic integrity

Was "Grapes of Wrath" too obscene?

The 1939 review of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"