The Harvest Gypsies - On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath

Gathered in this volume are seven articles that John Steinbeck wrote in 1936 about the plight of migrant farmworkers during the horrendous Dust Bowl migration. Combining the inquisitiveness and outrage of an investigative reporter with the expressive powers of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Hoovervilles of California, creating unforgettable portraits of once strong, independent farmers reduced to misery. The Harvest Gypsies furnished the factual and emotional roots for Steinbeck's masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, and has long been hailed as an American classic in its own right.