Great Depression writing, as authors have sought to evaluate an era that caused both financial and emotional trauma. Perhaps the most noteworthy and famous novel written on the subject is "The Grapes of Wrath", published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded both the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulitzer Prize for the work. The novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers who are forced from their home as drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agricultural industry occur during the Great Depression. Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" is another important novella about a journey during the
The Family (Shimazaki novel) social ladder as their eldest sons, Koizumi Minoru and Hashimoyo Tatsuo, take on disastrous financial projects. The character Sankichi is the youngest son of the Koizumi family, a writer – a thinly disguised "alter ego" for the author himself. The Family (Shimazaki novel) The Family is a Japanese novel written by Tōson Shimazaki, first serialized in 1910–11 under the title "Ie" (家). This autobiographical novel deals with the disintegration of two provincial families, the Koizumis and the Hashimotos. "The Family" covers a period of twelve years in the lives of the Koizumi and the Hashimoto families, from 1898 to 1910.