The Thursday Channel: The Grapes of Wrath (Part 3 of 3)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 1939, his novel, The Grapes of Wrath made Steinbeck an author of national importance and global relevance, depicting the trials and social injustices of the Great Depression through the odyssey of an "Okie" family bereft of their farm and seeking survival as migrant workers in California.  The novel is a distillation of Steinbeck's own journalistic research interviewing homeless farm families newly arrived in his native California, seeking to understand their personal stories amidst the economic crisis of the time.

Our guest discussion leader is Dr. Ron Luce, a literary scholar.