Letter, John Steinbeck to Franklin Roosevelt

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Original Exhibition Caption: Best-selling author John Steinbeck was a strong supporter of the New Deal. His Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), examined the harsh lives of migrant workers in California during the Great Depression. It was made into an Acade...

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THE WHITE HOUSE
3858
WASHINGTON June John 25, 1940.
PA:
I want to see John Steinbeck
the author of Grapes of Wrath tomorrow
for 20 minutes. He is in town at 2017
Hillyer Place, N.W.
F.D.R.

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