Steinbeck

The Washington Post followed up with an op-ed on the “Recession Only Steinbeck Could Love.”

Steinbeck, too, seemed to think that a sort of economic reckoning was close at hand when he invented the Joads in late 1938.

But often Steinbeck was traveling across the western U.S., with no good fishing or foraging to be had.

Boycott herself decamped early on, smitten by an American visitor to London, John Steinbeck IV, son of the Nobelist in literature.

None of these characters would be caught dead in a novel by John Steinbeck, Carson McCullers, or Eudora Welty.