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  2. The Grapes of Wrath - Wikipedia

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    The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. [2] The book won the National Book Award [3] and Pulitzer Prize [4] for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.

  3. The Grapes of Wrath (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford.It was based on John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck.

  4. Weedpatch, California - Wikipedia

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    Weedpatch is the site of the Arvin Federal Government Camp, known colloquially (and in the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath) as "Weedpatch Camp". This camp was a government rescue center for distressed migrant workers fleeing the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, during the Great Depression. [7]

  5. The Grapes of Wrath review: Steinbeck’s hymn to human ... - AOL

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    John Steinbeck’s classic The Grapes of Wrath might be a bona fide Great American Novel but there’s something deeply un-American about its values. Dreaming isn’t enough, it argues. The system ...

  6. Arvin Federal Government Camp - Wikipedia

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    The plight of the Okies and a description of Weedpatch Camp were chronicled by novelist John Steinbeck in his book The Grapes of Wrath.The book is dedicated to camp administrator Collins who was the model for the character called Jim Rawley. [9] The book was instantly successful and sold over 430,000 copies in a year. [10]

  7. 66 Motel (Needles) - Wikipedia

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    1916 Trails Arch Bridge spanning the Colorado River. In the 1940 film The Grapes of Wrath, the first sights on entering California were signs for the town of Needles and for "Carty's Camp", a group of tourist cabins (now abandoned and in disrepair) with a filling station. [5]

  8. John Steinbeck - Wikipedia

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    The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, both repels and attracts you. The horrors of the picture, so well drawn, make you dread sometimes to begin the next chapter, and yet you cannot lay the book down or even skip a page." [32] After visiting California labor camps in 1940, a reporter asked her if she believed that The Grapes of Wrath was ...

  9. Beckham County Courthouse - Wikipedia

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    The courthouse appeared in the film The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel. Families headed to California (such as the Joads of the film) passed through Sayre on U.S. Route 66, and many viewed the city as the start of the West. [6] The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 23 ...

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