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Sanora Babb (April 21, 1907 – December 31, 2005) was an American novelist, poet, and literary editor.
May 23, 2016 · Sanora Babb wrote about a family devastated by the Dust Bowl, but she lost her shot at stardom when John Steinbeck beat her to the punch
Aug 19, 2021 · In the summer of 1938 Sanora Babb, an aspiring, talented, and determined young writer, joined the volunteer staff at camps in California’s Imperial and San Joaquin Valleys run by the Farm Security Administration, which housed thousands of destitute farmers displaced by the Oklahoma Dust Bowl.
On December 31, 2005, Sanora Babb died at her home in Hollywood Hills, but the enthusiastic interest of new readers and scholars is keeping her legacy alive. Official Sanora Babb website, her bio, books, news and photographs.
Learn more about the author, poet, editor, and journalist Sanora Babb and her journey through the Dust Bowl.
BABB, SANORA LOUISE (1907–2005). Author Sanora Louise Babb was the eldest of Walter L. and Anna Jeanette "Jennie" Park Babb's two daughters. Born on April 21, 1907, in Red Rock, Oklahoma Territory, she grew up learning the culture of the Otoe who lived in the area.
Feb 4, 2015 · Sanora Babb was a writer, poet, and journalist who spent most of her adult life living in the shadow of John Steinbeck. By a strange twist of fate, the meticulous notes she took during her time visiting migrant workers in the Dust Bowl underpinned two novels: her own, Whose Names Are Unknown, and Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
Whether addressing Babb the poet and storyteller of the West, the labor activist, the environmentalist, or the champion of feminism and equality, the essays together record the full dimension of Babb's pivotal contributions to twentieth-century American life and letters.
A new collection of short stories and journalism by Sanora Babb, written between 1932 and 1949, that brings to life the painful period of the Great Depression.
Nov 15, 2012 · In her fiction, Babb sought to illuminate the stories of those families who left little written account of the unrelenting duress and the socio-economic strife that characterized the American High Plains at mid-century.
