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Context of John Steinbeck John Steinbeck was born in California in 1902, near to Soledad. Although his family was wealthy, he was interested in the lives of the farm labourers and spent time working with them. He used his experiences to write about in his stories. He wrote a number of novels about poor people who worked on the land and dreamed of a better life, including The Grapes of Wrath, which is the story of a family's struggle to escape the dust bowl of the West to reach California. Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1962, six years before his death in 1968. Added to the man-made financial problems were natural ones. A series of droughts in southern mid-western states like Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas led to failed harvests and dried-up land. Farmers were forced to move off their land: they couldn't repay the bank-loans which had helped...

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