I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck
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Steinbeck wrote about the Depression and how hard people's lives were, but he also makes so much comment about itinerant farm workers and race relations. He does a wonderful job illuminating character. He records the best and worst of human behavior. If you're looking for a window back to this time, this is it.
It seems kind of selfish now, when I think about why I started this event. Ten years ago my son, Jacob, was a sophomore here. He had written a paper about John Steinbeck. He wanted to present this paper at one of the conferences I went to, but I told him they didn't let students do that.
Steinbeck has drought and dust in the wrong parts of Oklahoma, ... And some Oklahomans and Texans didn't like the rather primitive image he created of the Joads. They felt, with some justification, it propounded an Okie stereotype.
When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.