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
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