print email comment close "Grapes of Wrath" Banned in Kern County URL: http://home.pacific.net.au/~greg.hub/banned.html Description: Brief essay on the August 22, 1939, decision of the Kern County (California) Board of Supervisors to ban this Steinbeck novel in the county's public schools and libraries. The article first appeared in "Californian Historian," June 1994. Author: Palo, Elise Publisher: California Historic Route 66 Association Library of Congress Subject Headings: Censorship Kern County (Calif.) -- History Prohibited books Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Grapes of wrath LII Database Information: Record 4314 created by Martha Gifford on 03/30/2002 Last modification on 12/18/2008 Published: 03/30/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/4314