Question: Which author nicknamed Route 66 the “Mother Road”?
Answer: Since its 1926 debut, Route 66 has been known by many names, including “America’s Main Street.” But the nickname that endured came from John Steinbeck. In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck chronicled Dust Bowl migrants traveling west from Oklahoma to California on Route 66, calling it “the mother road” and writing, “66 is the path of people in flight. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight.”
