id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-451 John Steinbeck - Wikipedia .html text/html 11760 1236 76 In that month, it won the National Book Award, favorite fiction book of 1939, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.[23] Later that year, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[24] and was adapted as a film directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad; Fonda was nominated for the best actor Academy Award. The Grapes of Wrath was banned by school boards: in August 1939, the Kern County Board of Supervisors banned the book from the county's publicly funded schools and libraries.[26] It was burned in Salinas on two different occasions.[46][47] In 2003, a school board in Mississippi banned it on the grounds of profanity.[48] According to the American Library Association Steinbeck was one of the ten most frequently banned authors from 1990 to 2004, with Of Mice and Men ranking sixth out of 100 such books in the United States.[49][50] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-451.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-451.txt