Editing John Steinbeck (section)

===''The Grapes of Wrath''===
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''The Grapes of Wrath'' was published during the [[Great Depression]] and had a contemporary setting, describing a family of [[sharecropper]]s, the Joads, who were driven from their land by the dust storms of the Dust Bowl. The title is a reference to the [[Battle Hymn of the Republic]]. Some critics found it too sympathetic to the workers' plight and too critical of capitalism,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-grapes-of-wrath-literary-criticism-critical-analysis.html|title=The Grapes of Wrath: Literary Criticism & Critical Analysis|website=Study.com|access-date=January 13, 2019|archive-date=January 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113062716/https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-grapes-of-wrath-literary-criticism-critical-analysis.html|url-status=live}}</ref> but it found a large audience of its own. It won both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction (novels) and was adapted as a [[The Grapes of Wrath (film)|film]] starring [[Henry Fonda]] and [[Jane Darwell]] and directed by [[John Ford]].