Guests in the rotunda prior to the author reading from his novel.

Author, Ed Mitchell, reads a representative passage from his novel.

While writing his debut novel, Ed Mitchell strove to create passages that have similar emotional impact as John Steinbeck achieved in his novel, The Grapes of Wrath.

A living legacy to John Steinbeck exists in the writers striving to meet the literary standard Steinbeck established. Ed Mitchell is one of those writers.