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America's Best Hated Author

By Eric Johnson

Monterey County Weekly | August 24, 2004

The author of The Grapes of Wrath was a threat to literary critics of the 1930s, even those who considered themselves progressive, because he did not kowtow to the officially sanctioned left-wing ideology of the day.

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