John Steinbeck's magnum opus captured the zeitgeist of the Great Depression and the failure of the American Dream, telling the story of one migrant family's journey across America to look for work fruit-picking in California. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. This edition of The Grapes of Wrath presents a facsimile of his original handwritten draft of the text, providing insight into the author's thought processes as he created this nation-defining epic.