print email comment close Death in the Dust URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/feb/02/johnsteinbeck.socialsciences Description: "Three years before publication [in 1939] of his masterpiece 'The Grapes Of Wrath,' John Steinbeck visited squatters' camps in California. To mark the centenary of his birth, we print [in 2002] this account ... of the misery that he witnessed." From the Guardian Unlimited, the website of the British newspaper The Guardian. Author: Steinbeck, John Publisher: Guardian Unlimited LII Database Information: Record 23433 created by Maria Brandt on 03/01/2007 Last modification on 08/07/2008 Published: 04/11/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23433