The impetus for Wrath was similar, but drawing connections between experiences is a tricky business with Steinbeck. “I had not heard the speech of America, smelled the grass and trees and sewage, seen its hills and water, its color and quality of light,” he wrote. The second would lead to one of his last - 1962’s charming, angry and (in time) controversial Travels With Charley in Search of America.Īs Steinbeck writes in the opening pages of Charley, he missed the hands-on experience of witnessing the diversity of the country for himself. That first road trip resulted in his first major book, 1939’s The Grapes of Wrath.
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As he prepped his RV - nicknamed Rocinante, after Don Quixote’s horse - he recalled a similar trip he had taken in 1936, when he rigged a used bakery delivery truck, left his home near Monterey, California, and headed to the San Joaquin Valley to report on the desperate migrant farm workers flooding the region.
In September 1960, John Steinbeck decided to hitch a trailer to a pickup truck, leave his home in New York, and take a road trip around the United States.
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