The harvest gypsies : on the road to the Grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck ; introduction by Charles Wollenberg.

Berkeley : Heyday Books, [1988]

62 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

WIPA 1055: Paperbound. From the Peter E. Palmquist Women in Photography International Archive.

Reprint. Originally published: San Francisco : The San Francisco News, 1936.

Here are seven articles written by John Steinbeck in 1936 as he toured squatters camps and Hoovervilles in California's migrant labor region, led by his friend Tom Collins, manager of a federal migrant labor camp. Steinbeck's personal and literary response led him to dedicate the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939) in part to Tom.

English

March 17, 2003

Includes bibliographical references (page xvii).