How long to write Grapes of Wrath?

Answer 1

Grapes of Wrath is 30 chapters long. I checked out the book from my local library and it was approx. 600 pages. Grapes of Wrath is 30 chapters long. I checked out the book from my local library and it was approx. 600 pages.

Answer 2

The Grapes of Wrath takes place in the early thirties. In the few years bad farming and drought meant that 100,000,000 acres of prairie blew away in the "Dustbowls" of Oklahoma and Texas, reducing thousands of farmers to poverty. Thats why many packed up and went west.

Answer 3

John Steinbeck wrote "The Grapes of Wrath" in about 5 months. However, the planning and research process could have taken longer.

Answer 4

There are 619 pages in The Grapes of Wrath.

Answer 5

John Steinbeck gave himself only 100 days to turn a series of newspaper articles he'd written into the novel that became the Grapes of Wrath. He worked from June to October in 1938.

Answer 6

He wrote it between June and October of 1928.