Matthew Sinrod Dr. Doyle Eng 102 5/5/98 "Themes in "The Grapes of Wrath" John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California February 27th 1902. He was the third of four children and the only son of John Ernst Steinbeck II, manager of a flour mill, and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, a former teacher. Steinbeck said of his youth, ("We were poor people with a hell of a lot of land which made us think we were rich people, even when …showed first 75 words of 840 total…

…showed last 75 words of 840 total…John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin Books USA Inc, Copyright 1939. James J. Martine (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume Nine, Bruccoli Clark Books, Copyright 1981. Harold Bloom (ed.), Bloom's Notes, Chelsea House Publishers, Copyright 1996. David Wyatt (ed.), New Essays on The Grapes of Wrath, Cambridge University Press, Copyright 1990. Carolyn Riley, Phyllis Mendelson (editors), Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale Company, Copyright 1976. Excerpt from Wilson McWilliams, John Steinbeck, Writer, reprinted with permission of Commonweal Publishing Company. Word Count: 763