 Banks and the large farming corporations that controlled most  California farms were not keen on the original novel (it was banned  in some states and in several counties in California, and the book  was not carried in the municipal library of author  John Steinbeck (qv)s home town of Salinas, California, until just  a few years ago) and were even less thrilled that a film was being  made of it. The Associated Farmers of California called for a  boycott of all 20th Century