Dircks, Phyllis T. “Steinbeck’s Statement on the Inner Chapters of The Grapes of Wrath.” Steinbeck Quarterly 24(Summer–Fall 1991), 86–94 [Steinbeck’s 1953 letter to Herbert Sturz].
Ditsky, John. “The Grapes of Wrath: A Reconsideration.” Southern Humanities Review 13 (Summer 1979), 215–220.
Fontenrose, Joseph. John Steinbeck: An Introduction and Interpretation. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1963, 67–83.
Harmon, Robert B. “Thomas Hart Benton and John Steinbeck.” Steinbeck Newsletter 1 (Spring 1988), 1–2.
Hayashi, Tetsumaro. “Women and the Principle of Continuity in The Grapes of Wrath.” Kyushu American Literature 10 (1967), 75–80.
Heavilin, Barbara A. “The Invisible Woman: Ma Joad as an Epic Heroine in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.” Kyushu American Literature 32(1991), 51–61.
Kennedy, William. “‘My Work Is No Good.”’ The New York Times Book Review April 9, 1989, 1; 44–45. [Review of Working Days and Fiftieth Anniversary edition of The Grapes of Wrath.]
Krim, Arthur. “Elmer Hader and The Grapes of Wrath Book Jacket.” Steinbeck Newsletter 4(Winter 1991), 1–3.
—. “John Steinbeck and Highway 66.” Steinbeck Newsletter 4 (Summer 1991), 8–9.
Lewis, Cliff. “The Grapes of Wrath: The Psychological Transition from Clan to Community.” The American Examiner 6 (Fall–Winter 1978–1979), 40–68.
Loftis, Anne. “The Media and the Migrants: Steinbeck’s Contemporary Impact.” Steinbeck Newsletter 2 (Fall 1989), 5; 9.
McCarthy, Paul. “House and Shelter as Symbol in The Grapes of Wrath.” South Dakota Review 5 (Winter 1967), 48–67.
Motley, Warren. “From Patriarchy to Matriarchy: Ma Joad’s Role in The Grapes of Wrath.” American Literature 54 (October 1982), 397–412.
Owens, Louis. John Steinbeck’s Re-Vision of America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985, 128–40.
—. and Hector Torres. “Dialogic Structure and Levels of Discourse in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.” Arizona Quarterly 45 (Winter 1989), 75–94.
Roberts, David. “Travels with Steinbeck.” American Photographer 22(March 1989), 44–51.
Schmidt, Gary D. “Steinbeck’s ‘Breakfast’: A Reconsideration.” Western American Literature 26 (Winter 1992), 303–311.
Shillinglaw, Susan. “Carol’s Library and Papers.” The Steinbeck Newsletter 2 (Fall 1988), 1–2.
—. “Local Newspapers Report on ‘The Oklahomans.”’ Steinbeck Newsletter 2 (Fall 1989), 4–5.
Shloss, Carol. In Visible Light: Photography and the American Writer, 1840–1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987, 201–29.
Simmonds, Roy S. Steinbeck’s Literary Achievement. Steinbeck Monograph Series No. 6. Muncie, IN: Ball State University/Steinbeck Society, 1976.
Tedlock, E. W., and C. V. Wicker, eds. Steinbeck and His Critics: A Record of Twenty-Five Years. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1957.
Terkel, Studs. “Introduction: We Still See Their Faces.” Fiftieth Anniversary Edition of The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, 1989, v–xx.
Thomsen, Alice Barnard. “Erik H. Thomsen and John Steinbeck.” Steinbeck Newsletter 3 (Summer 1990), 1–3.
Timmerman, John. John Steinbeck’s Fiction: The Aesthetics of the Road Taken. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986, 102–32.
—. “The Squatter’s Circle in The Grapes of Wrath.” Studies in American Fiction 17(Autumn 1989), 203–211.
Background on the 1930s
Baldwin, Sidney. Poverty and Politics: The Rise and Decline of the Farm Security Administration. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
Bogardus, Ralph F., and Fred Hobson, eds. Literature at the Barricades: The American Writer in the 1930s. University: University of Alabama Press, 1982.
Gregory, James N. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and the Okie Culture in California. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Homberger, Eric. American Writers and Radical Politics, 1900–1939: Equivocal Commitments. New York: St. Martin’s, 1987.
Lange, Dorothea, and Paul S. Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939.
McWilliams, Carey. Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California. Boston: Little, Brown, 1939.
Meister, Dick, and Anne Loftis. A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to union ize America’s Farm Workers. New York: Macmillan, 1977.
Peeler, David P. Hope Among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
Pells, Richard H. Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.