Years… Born: 1902 Died: 1968 Wrote: He wrote The Grapes of Wrath in 1930’s and released it in 1939. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. Nationality: He was an American author who lived in Salinas, California. He was educated at Stanford University. He first worked as a fruit picker, but then moved to New York. He didn’t like it in New York so he moved back and became an author. Style: John Steinbeck’s style is to …showed first 75 words of 2567 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2567 total…taken leadership away from the weakened Pa and is now in charge of the family. But the family that Ma is in charge of is more than her immediate family. The characters in The Grapes of Wrath and the members of the Joad family have united into a universal family that Ma serves as the caretaker of, and under Ma’s control this family will not die out to the corporations and will live forever.