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The Grapes of Wrath
October 9, 2020
MagazineVivian Gornick
The Anti-Social Novelist
A celebrated chronicler of human suffering, John Steinbeck could not abide other people.
March 4, 2011
Otis Ferguson
TNR Film Classic: 'The Grapes of Wrath' (1940)
April 10, 1995
John H. Richardson
TNR Film Classics: The Case Against Hollywood (April 10, 1995)
August 30, 1975
Gerald Mast
TNR Film Classics: Whatever Happened to Black-and-White?
June 21, 1939
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Readers in 1939 Rush to John Steinbeck’s Defense
Letters in response to a questioning of Steinbeck's artistic integrity

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