Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath: 9780140144574

The Grapes of Wrath is a unique and penetrating portrait of an emblematic American writer creating an essential American masterpiece.

Throughout its creation, Steinbeck faithfully kept a journal revealing his arduous journey toward its completion.

This book chronicles the conception and genesis of The Grapes of Wrath and its huge though controversial success.

Read more About the Author John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast.

Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction.

In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree.