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Topic: The Grapes Of Wrath

This photo of Babb alone was taken by her husband, James Wong Howe. (Courtesy of Joanne Dearcopp, literary executor of the Babb estate)

Steinbeck plundered her work for "Wrath"

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Dorris Bowdon, Jane Darwell and Henry Fonda in "The Grapes of Wrath," directed by John Ford, 1940. (20th Century Fox/Courtesy of Getty Images)

Classic literature insights on refugees

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