After the Grapes of WrathTraditionally, the critical reputation of Nobel Prize winning American novelist John Steinbeck (1902 1968) has rested on his achievements of the 1930s, especially In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (19370, The Long Valley (1938), and, of course, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), one of the most powerful and arguable on of the greatest American novels of this century. Book reviewers and academic critics often turned antagonistic toward Steinbeck when