Confession: I never read “The Grapes of Wrath.” Not until now. Most people are forced to read it in high school. It was ...

Sept. 29 marks the beginning of the American Library Association's annual "Banned Books Week," a commemoration of all the books that have ever been removed from library shelves and classrooms.

The late John Steinbeck’s literature is not just a critical part of the American literary canon, but intrinsic to American identity itself. With every deeply relatable, ordinary protagonist, Steinbeck ...

As a biographer, Iris Jamahl Dunkle has made it a calling to unearth the “lost voices” of history and literature — talented, creative and accomplished women whose contributions have been underplayed, ...

Forty-two years ago this week, Diane Kaste was sitting in the Kanawha School Board meeting. She remembers it clearly. “All kinds of TV cameras were there. And it was in the cafeteria,” Kaste, who now ...

The I-Will-If-You-Will Book Club is reading John Steinbeck's Dust Bowl classic. (Some of us for the very first time!) Here we discuss Chapters 1... Late last week, an email exchange between NPR Books' ...

AMC is developing a new TV franchise called “Great American Stories,” which will kick off with a limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” Rolin Jones ...

THE FRUIT TRAMP (247 pp.)—Vinnie Williams—Harper ($3.50). Raffish characters and an offbeat setting can sometimes save a novel. This is what happens in The Fruit Tramp, a warm-hearted little first ...

The Steinbeck classic was banned and burned in a number of cities, including Kern County, Calif. — the endpoint of the Joad family's fictional... 'Grapes Of Wrath' And The Politics of Book Burning ...