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Events on Friday 14 April 1939 1
1939The Grapes of Wrath publishedSteinbeck's novel of Dust Bowl migrantsJohn Steinbeck's novel follows the Joad family from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression. It was the best-selling book of 1939 and won the Pulitzer Prize. It was banned and burned in parts of California.