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  1. Publishers Random House, Penguin Complete Merger

    Mon, 1 Jul 2013

    include top-selling authors such as Dan Brown and Ken Follett and a vast back catalog ranging from John Steinbeck 's "The Grapes of Wrath " to Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man." Random House chief executive Markus Dohle becomes CEO of the

  2. Route 66 Runs Forever

    Thu, 27 Jun 2013

    automobiles like this stretch of highway connecting Chicago to California. Called the Mother Road in John Steinbeck 's "The Grapes of Wrath ," the route was commissioned in 1926 by the Bureau of Public Roads, which pieced it together using

  3. Route 66 Runs Forever

    Thu, 27 Jun 2013

    automobiles like this stretch of highway connecting Chicago to California. Called the Mother Road in John Steinbeck 's "The Grapes of Wrath ," the route was commissioned in 1926 by the Bureau of Public Roads, which pieced it together using

  4. Today in History

    Thu, 27 Jun 2013

    will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill?" — John Steinbeck , American author (1902-1968). (Above Advance for Use Thursday, June 27) Copyright 2013, The Associated Press

  5. Photos: Who Is Fred Ross Sr.?

    Mon, 18 Mar 2013

    and Woody Guthrie, 1939 Ross Sr. began community organizing in the California labor camps depicted by John Steinbeck in "The Grapes of Wrath ." Folk singer Woody Guthrie took his guitar to the cotton fields and sang to the migrant workers. Fred

  6. The Campaign to Award Fred Ross Sr. a Medal of Freedom

    Sun, 17 Mar 2013

    themselves. He started out as an organizer of migrant workers in the same California labor camps depicted by John Steinbeck in "The Grapes of Wrath ." The reason for his initial foray into community organizing was simple. "He just had to do something

News

  1. 100 Places to Visit Before You Die, Redux

    Wed, 31 Aug 2011

    around the world, including ones from Mali and Ethiopia, descend on this old goldmining town made famous by novelist John Steinbeck . Northam calls Dawson far-flung, likable, and rustic. Writer Catherine Price offers a different sort of advice

  2. Oprah Winfrey Friend Questions New Tell-All Biography

    Sun, 11 Apr 2010

    Eric Butterworth "A Fine Balance," by Rohinton Mistry "The Poisonwood Bible," by Barbara Kingsolver " East of Eden ," by John Steinbeck "The Pillars of the Earth," by Ken Follett "The Known World," by Edward P. Jones "The Bluest Eye

  3. The old is new again at 'Saturday Evening Post'

    Sat, 4 Jul 2009

    the Post has printed work from such authors as C.S. Lewis, Agatha Christie, William Saroyan, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck , Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Lorimer, who became editor in 1899, made the cover into an artists

  4. 'GMA' List of the Day: Best Fall Foliage Drives and Lodging

    Fri, 26 Jun 2009

    through Thursday at the Blue Ridge Music Center, located in Galax, Va. 3. Route 66 Immortalized by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath , this original mega highway has long personified the American dream of escaping hard times and making

  5. Route 66 Road Trip: Okla. to N.M.

    Fri, 8 May 2009

    The most striking thing about old Route 66 is how much is gone. We came to the Mother Road, as John Steinbeck once called it, expecting a nostalgic tour of days gone by. That's what most people expect. That's why they come. They

  6. Poll on the economy: Americans gloomier, for now

    Mon, 29 Sep 2008

    that way to some. We're nowhere near the days of wandering homelessness evoked in John Steinbeck 's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath . Starting in 1929, the U.S. economy shrank for four consecutive years. In 1940

  7. Americans gloomier, for now

    Sun, 28 Sep 2008

    that way to some. We're nowhere near the days of wandering homelessness evoked in John Steinbeck 's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath . Starting in 1929, the U.S. economy shrank for four consecutive years. In 1940

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Videos

  1. Voices of Long-Gone Novelists

    Mon, 27 Oct 2008

    authors from Virginia to John Steinbeck . Miguel Marquez reports from London. Grapes of wrath tells the story of the interviews here from Steinbeck himself on what drove to take care of it. Steinbeck and other voices have

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    trove. A voice recordings English and American authors from Virginia -- to John Steinbeck . Miguel Marquez reports from London. Grapes of wrath tells the story of the Joseph family in search of a better life during the depths of the Great Depression. -- lose everything I had. In a collection of rare interviews -- here from Steinbeck himself on what drove him to write the definitive story. But regular Americans caught up in extra real economic or. When I was a group throughout there was field naturally would certainly angers. The depression -- without the ability to take care of it. Steinbeck and other voices have rarely been hurt at all. But now the British library has put together two sets of interviews from
  2. 10 Years of Oprah Magazine

    Mon, 12 Apr 2010

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  3. Liam Neeson: From Ballymena to Hollywood

    Fri, 27 Jan 2012

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    Mon, 9 May 2011

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  5. Webcast: Buckeye State Stumping, Terrorism's Frontlines, Rare Recordings

    Mon, 27 Oct 2008

    American authors from Virginia to John Steinbeck . Miguel Marquez reports from one collection of rare interviews here from Steinbeck himself on what drove him to write the ability to take care of it. Steinbeck and other voices have rarely been

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    trove. A voice recordings English and American authors from Virginia -- to John Steinbeck . Miguel Marquez reports from one. Grapes of -- tells the story of the Joseph family in search of a better life during the depths of the Great Depression. -- lose everything I had. In a collection of rare interviews -- here from Steinbeck himself on what drove him to write the definitive story. But regular Americans caught up in extra real economic or. When I was a group throughout there was still naturally would certainly angers. The depression go to without the ability to take care of it. Steinbeck and other voices have rarely been hurt at all. But now the British library has put together two sets of interviews from
  6. Candidates Genealogy

    Wed, 26 Mar 2008

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