“Three years into the Great Depression Steinbeck had already written Of Mice and Men, a tale of migrant farm workers, and had started on The Grapes of Wrath.”
In these harsh economic times Michael Goldfarb asks, “Where are today’s Steinbecks?” The piece also covers the interesting history behind the film version of GoW and modern day Hollywood’s lack of economically aware movies.
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