The Harvest Gypsies [Paperback]

Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote forThe San Francisco Newsin 1936, three years beforeThe Grapes of Wrath. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Hoovervilles of California.The Harvest Gypsiesgives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, a major event in California history, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbecks masterpiece,The Grapes of Wrath. Included are twenty-two photographs by Dorothea Lange and others, many of which accompanied Steinbeck's original articles.