The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the
Anwyl of Tywyn family Byron Rogers for the book "Three Journeys", an excerpt of which was published in "Cambria Magazine" in June 2011. Concerning his extraordinary heritage, Mr. Anwyl is on record as saying, "History was never a favourite subject of mine. We've always been humble farmers, that is until I and my two sisters became teachers. We've always been proud of our family history, but amongst ourselves, beyond that, no." The coat of arms of this family are described (by Thomas Nicholas in 1872) as follows; Anwyl of Tywyn family Anwyl of Tywyn ("Anwyl" pronounced ) are a Welsh family who claim a