In nineteen thirty-nine, John Steinbeck wrote about these families in "The Grapes of Wrath."

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Europe, at this time, would merit the attentions of the US Depression-era author John Steinbeck.

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Actor James Franco, star of Sam Raimi's Wizard of Oz prequel, is to make his Broadway debut in the John Steinbeck classic Of Mice and Men.

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" After the convention, the truck will travel nationwide selling Penguin releases, following the famed Route 66 journey in one of the publisher's most celebrated novels: John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath.

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