April 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the first Viking hardcover publication of Steinbeck’s crowning literary achievementįirst published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize–winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.
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