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John Steinbeck Map of America Molly Maguire The John Steinbeck Map of America [Literary map collection] Color lithograph map Los Angeles: Aaron Blake, 1986 Geography & Map Division (181.

7 John Steinbeck Map of America Molly Maguire The John Steinbeck Map of America [Literary map collection] Color lithograph map Los Angeles: Aaron Blake, 1986 Geography & Map Division (181.10) The John Steinbeck Map of America features popular images from Steinbeck's novels such as Tortilla Flat (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and The Pearl (1947). The outline of the map shows the route of Travels with Charley (1962), and the central portion consists of detailed street maps of the California towns of Salinas and Monterey, where Steinbeck lived and set some of his works. Numbers on the maps are keyed to lists of events in Steinbeck's novels. A portrait of the author appears in the upper right corner. Research and design of the map were done by Molly Maguire, who produced a series of literary maps in the 1980s.

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Typescript for The Grapes of Wrath with copy-editing marks, 1939 Manuscript Division Gift of Frank J. Hogan, 1941 (61A.8) http://www.loc.

8 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck ( ) Typescript for The Grapes of Wrath with copy-editing marks, 1939 Manuscript Division Gift of Frank J. Hogan, 1941 (61A.8) John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, where he documents a national tragedy by tracing one family's exodus from Oklahoma because of the great "dust bowl" disaster. The naturalistic style delivered a message that shocked the nation and exposed the exploited masses of the Depression Era. Steinbeck was instrumental in changing laws to benefit the working classes. For this and subsequent novels, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

9 Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma stalled on the desert in southern California March 1937 Dorothea Lange, Photographer FSA-OWI Collection, Prints & Photographs Division (71)

10 PREVIOUS NEXT ITEM LIST NEW SEARCH America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, Weeding the seedbeds at guayule nursery at Salinas, California. Lee, Russell, photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1941 Dec. NOTES: Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; SUBJECTS Nitrate negatives. United States--California--Salinas. MEDIUM 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm. CALL NUMBER LC-USF M3 REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-USF M3 DLC (b&w film nitrate neg.) PART OF Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC USA DIGITAL ID (digital file from intermediary roll film) fsa 8a30882

11 PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCH Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, Todd-Sonkin 1940 Fieldnotes Arvin Camp, Arvin California July 28, 1940 Page image 0002 Locale The Arvin Migratory Labor Camp was established by the Farm Security Administration in 1937 at Weedpatch California, near Arvin, in the cotton-growing region of the San Joaquin Valley. It was the first of its kind in California, and is notable as the scene of John Steinbecke's "Grapes of Wrath". At the time of these recordings it contained 145 families(650 persons). The camp consists of 106 metal shelters (steel, painted with an aluminum paint said to cut off the sun's rays perceptibly), 98 tents, and 20 adobes. At the peak of the cotton picking the camp population rises to 250 families, or 1200 persons. (Average family is 4.2 persons, said to be below the average for the nation). The adobes are assigned on a selective basis. The occupant must show a record of 6 months employment in agriculture during preceding year. The adobes are permanent homestead - - including an acre of ground; we saw flower gardens, etc. Rent is $8.25 per month. Rent for the shelters or tent platforms is $.25 per week. The Comm. which chooses the residents of the adobes is a camp comm. The occupants of the adobes are "permanent" -- the occupants of the tents and shelters may not stay in the camp for more than a year-- altho they may move back after having lived elsewhere for a while. Manager, Mr. Fred Ross. These field notes describe the camp on which The Grapes of Wrath is based.

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Of Mice and Men. By John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men. By John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck John Steinbeck One of The Great American Writers of the 20 th Century A Look at the Author Born February 27 th in 1902 in Salinas, California, John was the third of four