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Shillinglaw, Susan. “Carol’s Library and Papers.” The Steinbeck Newsletter 2 (Fall 1988), 1-2.

——— “Local Newspapers Report on ‘The Oklahomans.’ ” The Steinbeck Newsletter 2 (Summer 1989), 4-5.

——— “California Answers The Grapes of Wrath.” In John Steinbeck: The Years of Greatness, 1936-1939. Tetsumaro Hayashi, ed. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993, 145-64.

Shindo, Charles J. “The Perfectibility of Man: John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath,” and “The World-Old Desire to Tell a Story: John Ford and The Grapes of Wrath.” In Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997, 55-74; 147-65.

Shloss, Carol. “John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange: The Surveillance of Dissent.” In In Visible Light: Photography and the American Writer, 1840-1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987, 201-29.

Simmonds, Roy S. “The Original Manuscript.“” San Jose Studies 16 (Winter 1990), 117-32.

Stoneback, H. R. “Woody Sez: Woody Guthrie and ‘The Grapes of Wrath.’ ” The Steinbeck Newsletter 2 (Summer 1989), 8-9.

Szalay, Michael. “The Vanishing American Father: Sentiment and Labor in The Grapes of Wrath and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” In New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000, 162-200.

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. “Eric H. Thomsen and John Steinbeck.” The Steinbeck Newsletter 3 (Summer 1990), 1-3.

Timmerman, John. “The Squatter’s Circle in The Grapes of Wrath.” Studies in American Fiction 17 (Autumn 1989), 203-11.

Valenti, Peter. “Steinbeck’s Ecological Polemic: Human Sympathy and Visual Documentary in the Intercalary Chapters of The Grapes of Wrath.” In Steinbeck and the Environment: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Susan F. Beegel, Susan Shillinglaw, and Wesley N. Tiffney, eds. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997, 92-112.

Weisiger, Marsha L. “The Reception of The Grapes of Wrath in Oklahoma. ” Chronicles of Oklahoma 70 (Winter 1992-1993), 394-415.

Windschuttle, Keith. “Steinbeck’s Myth of the Okies.” The New Criterion (June 2002), 24-32.

CULTURAL, HISTORICAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL BACKGROUND ON THE 1930s AND BEYOND

Note: For a valuable documentary archive of Dust Bowl culture, consult the Library of Congress’s Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, available at . For a useful Web site on the background and history of Weedpatch, the Arvin Federal Farm Security Administration camp (now called Sunset Labor Camp) consult . Surviving the Dust Bowl, a documentary film in PBS’s American Experience series, is also highly recommended.

Baldwin, Sidney. Poverty and Politics: The Rise and Decline of the Farm Security Administration. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.

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 Press, 1987.

Lange, Dorothea, and Paul S. Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939.

Lookingbill, Brad D. Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001.

Maril, Robert Lee. Waltzing with the Ghost of Tom Joad: Poverty, Myth, and Low-Wage Labor in Oklahoma. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

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 Unionize America’s Farm Workers. New York: Macmillan, 1977.

Morgan, Dan. Rising in the West: The True Story of an “Okie” Family from the Great Depression Through the Reagan Years. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.