It is likely, but by no means certain, that in May 1938, the writers John Steinbeck and Sanora Babb met in a café near Arvin, California. Both were in town to chronicle the plight of migrants who were flooding the state to escape the decimation of the Dust Bowl. Both were writing fiction about it—Steinbeck had abandoned two... read full story
"What rotten luck for you that ‘The Grapes of Wrath' should not only have come out before your book was submitted but should have so swept the country!"