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John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck
McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing the same clothes from her 1935 studio session that produced the work shown here: https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.74 / Public domain · resizedfile
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The seven newspaper pieces collected in The Harvest Gypsies preceded The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck reported on migrant farm workers in California in 1936. Read the articles first if you want to see which living and working conditions he described as a reporter before he gave the subject a fictional family.
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