Bound for glory woody guthrie autobiography

by Woody Guthrie

THE LITERARY WORK

An autobiography set in Oklahoma, Texas, California, New York, and on the open road from the 1910s to the 1940s; published in 1943.

SYNOPSIS

Bound for Glory details the life of the wellknown folksinger Woody Guthrie.

As an “Okie,” an Oklahoma Dust Bowl refugee, Guthrie spent a large portion of his life playing music and riding trains and boxcars back and forth across the country.

Events in History at the Time of the Autobiography

The Autobiography in Focus

For More Information

Woody Guthrie was born into an upper-class family in Okemah, Oklahoma, in 1912.

Musically gifted, he experienced many hardships during his childhood, including an increasingly poverty-stricken household and the breakup of his family.

Bound for glory woody guthrie autobiography

During the Great Depression, Guthrie set out on his own for California. He spent time in the state’s migrant camps, composing songs and riding trains from one place to the next. A left-wing political activist, he e