#OtD 27 Feb 1902 Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California. Many of his works featured radical, working class themes, including The Grapes of Wrath, and In Dubious Battle, about a fruit pickers' strike: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9892/birth-of-john-steinbeck
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I'd also recomend his short Vigilante, which gets into the mass psychology of mobs and lynchings.