👉 Beckoner is a character from the 1972 novel "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, which was published in 1939. The book tells the story of a family who travels through the American Southwest and faces various hardships as they try to make it across the border into Mexico. In this fictionalized account, Beckoner is a man who has been hired to transport a large shipment of produce from the United States to Mexico. He is portrayed as