Steinbeck hero Tom

• Maiden name of the Steinbeck character Rose of Sharon Casy
• Tom, Ma or Pa, in "The Grapes of Wrath"
• Okie family name
• Woody Guthrie's "Tom ___"
• "Grapes of Wrath" family
• Steinbeck's Ma or Pa
• Bruce Springsteen "The Ghost of Tom ___"
• Steinbeck's Ma, Pa or Tom
• Surname of literary characters Noah, Tom, Al, Rosasharn, Ruthie, and Winfield

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Joad is a surname: C. E. M. Joad (1891–1953), a British philosopher Tom Joad , a fictional character from the 1939 John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath and the 1940 movie of the same name