Patrick Skene-Catling

The two people who brought us The Grapes of Wrath

Carol and John Steinbeck put all their love and idealism into his most famous novels, shows Susan Shillinglaw in Portrait of a Marriage

O.Z. Whitehead, Dorris Bowdon, John Carradine and Henry Fonda in the 1940 film, The Grapes of Wrath [2012 Getty Images]
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  • Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage

    Susan Shillinglaw

    University of Nevada Press, pp. 312

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