Stephen Vincent Benet's John Brown's Body comes immediately to mind in this connection, as does John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath and Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes.

* 1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.

Films like The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ) show the effects of the depression.

For example, " raisins are the wrath of grapes " is a play on the title of the book The Grapes of Wrath.

Among books on the list considered to be the Great American Novel were: Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, The Catcher in the Rye, Invisible Man and To Kill a Mockingbird.

* In April 1996, after continued Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, the Israeli armed forces launched Operation Grapes of Wrath, which was intended to wipe out Hezbollah's base in southern Lebanon.

Finally, following several days of negotiations, the two sides signed the Grapes of Wrath Understandings on April 26, 1996.

* Other dramatisations: 10, 000 Black Men Named George ( 2002 ); Matewan ( 1987 ); American Playhouse —" The Killing Floor " ( 1985 ); Salt of the Earth ( 1954 ); The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ); Black Fury ( 1935 )

Real GDP grew 8 % in 1994 and 7 % in 1995 before Israel's Operation Grapes of Wrath in April 1996 stunted economic activity.

* 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

The road popularized through John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Bobby Troup's "( Get Your Kicks On ) Route 66 " would be marketed not as transportation infrastructure but as a tourism destination in its own right.

Rural flight from the Great Plains has been depicted in literature, such as John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939 ), in which a family from the Great Plains migrates to California during the Dust Bowl period of the 1930s.

) Sondheim has expressed his dislike of movie musicals, favoring classic dramas like Citizen Kane, The Grapes of Wrath, and A Matter of Life and Death.

** John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath is first published.

* April 11 – The Israeli government launches Operation Grapes of Wrath, consisting of massive attacks on Lebanon, in retaliation for prior terrorist attacks, and sparking off a violent series of retaliations.

Bradbury has credited Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath as influences on the structure of the book.

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.

The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy .< ref > A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was made in 1940.

Nevertheless the film received critical acclaim in France, where it was compared to John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, and it has since acquired the very high rating of 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl.

Fonda's successes led Ford to recruit him to play " Tom Joad " in the film version of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ).

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath and won for his part in 1981's On Golden Pond.

* 1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Author John Steinbeck later wrote The Grapes of Wrath, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Of Mice and Men, about such people.

The work of independent artists, such as American novelist John Steinbeck's novels Of Mice and Men ( 1937 ) and The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939 ), and the music of folk singer Woody Guthrie, was also influenced by the crises of the Dust Bowl and the Depression.

It was photographed by Gregg Toland, later famed for his cinematography on films such as Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939 ).

John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath won the Pulitzer Prize for its controversial characterization of the Okie lifestyle and journey to California.

The wide-shouldered 6 ' 2 " Bond appears in more of the films on both the original and the tenth anniversary edition of the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies lists than any other actor, albeit always as a supporting player: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and The Searchers ( 1956 ).

Arrowsmith ( 1931 / 32 ), Lady for a Day ( 1933 ), It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), You Can't Take It with You ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ), The Quiet Man ( 1952 ) and Mister Roberts ( 1955 ).

* 1939: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

In John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, the character Ma Joad refers several times to Pretty Boy Floyd as a young man driven to a tragic fate by the Great Depression.

Charley Ellsworth Grapewin ( December 20, 1869 – February 2, 1956 ) was an American vaudeville performer and a stage and film actor, who portrayed Uncle Henry in MGM's The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) and Grandpa Joad in the film The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ).

Their plight gained national attention through the 1939 novel and film The Grapes of Wrath.

* Tom Joad, a fictional character from the 1939 John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath and the 1940 movie of the same name

The album was largely instrumental and inspired by John Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath.

Weedpatch is the location of the Arvin Federal Government Camp, known colloquially ( and in the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath ) as " Weedpatch Camp.

* In John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family stops in Needles when they enter California on Route 66.

* Dorris Bowdon, a Coldwater native, was a screen actress who appeared in several motion pictures in the 1930s and 1940s and is best known for her role as Rosasharn in the film adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel " The Grapes of Wrath ", starring Henry Fonda.

When John Steinbeck's epic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, was made into a movie, director John Ford used Santa Rosa for the memorable train scene.

* The Joad family from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck were sharecroppers from Sallisaw.

John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath mentions The Pilgrim's Progress as one of an ( anonymous ) character's favorite books.

The Grapes of Wrath, considered his masterpiece, is a strong, socially-oriented novel that tells the story of the Joads, a poor family from Oklahoma and their journey to California in search of a better life.

* In John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, set in a time of great poverty, a woman whose baby has just died, and consequently whose breasts are engorged with milk, wet-nurses a man at the point of death, as no other nourishment is available, a reference to Roman Charity.

The term became well-known nationwide by John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath.

* In John Steinbeck's famous novel The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family briefly settles into a Hooverville in California.

The Depression-era migrants to the San Joaquin Valley from the South and Midwest are one of the more well-known groups in the Central Valley, in large part due to the popularity of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath and the Henry Fonda movie made from it.

Route 66 in the midwestern and southwestern United States is a prime example of such efforts ; " Historic Route US 66 " markers, completely unofficial, designate most of the old surface road, some of which has literary significance ( as in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath ).

Their refugee status was recorded in folk songs ( including many by Woody Guthrie ), as well as John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, and the film adaptation starring Henry Fonda.

Atlantic Monthly ( Edward Weeks ) immediately reviewed The Winter of Our Discontent as a Steinbeck classic: " His dialogue is full of life, the entrapment of Ethan is ingenious, and the morality in this novel marks Mr. Steinbeck's return to the mood and the concern with which he wrote The Grapes of Wrath.

In 1988, Steppenwolf presented the world premiere of The Grapes of Wrath, based on the John Steinbeck novel, which eventually went on to win the Tony Award for Best Play.