Sour grapes have left some of the classic works of John Steinbeck in a dust bowl. The writer's stepdaughter told jurors in federal court Tuesday that film remakes of "The Grapes of Wrath" and "East of ...

Steinbeck, who had just published a bestselling novel, "Of Mice and Men," in February 1937, had found Collins while he was writing a series of articles on the plight of the Dust Bowl refugees for The ...

As a biographer, Iris Jamahl Dunkle has made it a calling to unearth the “lost voices” of history and literature — talented, creative and accomplished women whose contributions have been underplayed, ...

“A gentle wind followed the rain clouds, driving them on northward, a wind that softly clashed the drying corn,” wrote John Steinbeck in Chapter 1 of “The Grapes of Wrath,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California, typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” the Dust Bowlers who stayed overcame an almost unbelievable series of ...

Dust storms like this one on “Black Sunday” near Beaver, Oklahoma, pushed thousands of families onto Route 66, the road Steinbeck later called “the Mother Road.” Route 66 earned its nickname in 1939, ...