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
A Decayed Family 1890 Volume 6 came out in the alternative version, "A Decayed Family" included. A Decayed Family A Decayed Family () is an unfinished novel by Nikolai Leskov, subtitled "The Family Chronicles of Princes Protazanov" (Семейная хроника князей Протозановых). Parts one and two of it were first published in the 1874 Nos. 7,8 and 10 of "The Russian Messenger" as part of a trilogy which also included "Old Years in Plodomasovo" (1869) and "The Cathedral Clergy" (1872). The publication of the novel has led to Leskov's severing all ties with "The Russian Messenger". The main issue was the magazine's editor-in-chief Mikhail