John steinbeck becomes familiar with the problems of the migrant workers partially because
a. he overhears his parents
b. reads about them in the newspaper
c. sees them on television
d. lives near the fields on which they labor

The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by your question is the fourth choice or letter D. John Steinbeck was an American novelist whose Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, portrayed the plight of migrant workers during the Great Depression. 

John Steinbeck becomes familiar with the problems of the migrant workers partially because he "Lives near the fields on which they labor."

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