1939年4月14日美国现代小说家约翰·斯坦贝克的代表作品《愤怒的葡萄》发表了。小说生动地再现了美国30年代经济萧条时期大批破产农民背景离乡,从“尘谷”俄克拉荷马州长途跋涉到土地肥沃的加利福尼亚州去寻找生路的历史画面。《愤怒的葡萄》发表后,很快引起了强烈的社会反响。支持者们欢呼一部现实主义巨著 April 14, 1939 The representative work of American contemporary novelist John Steinbeek, “The Grapes of Fury,” was published. The novel vividly reproduces the historical images of a large number of bankrupt peasants leaving the United States during the economic depression of the 1930s in the United States and from “Dust Valley” to the fertile California of Oklahoma. The publication of “Angry Grape” soon aroused strong social repercussions. Supporters cheer a realism masterpiece