Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed ‘The Grapes of Wrath.” The book’s success led to the cancellation of ...

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NEA Big Read grants to support community-wide reading programs under the new theme, “Our Nature: How Our Physical Environment ...

The history of Israel’s incursions into Lebanon are a series of lessons in futility and the arrogance of power. If only ...

Migrant camp worker Sanora Babb wrote what could have been the era's definitive book. Instead she became a footnote ...

As the ‘Leave the World Behind’ author releases his second novel, ‘Entitlement’, he reveals the book that first obsessed him, ...

In “Riding Like the Wind,” Iris Jamahl Dunkle recounts Babb’s adventurous life and makes the case for her neglected books.

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John Steinbeck beat Sanora Babb to the great American Dust Bowl novel—using her field notes. What do we owe her today?

Dunkle, a Sebastopol-based poet and writer who teaches literature at UC Davis, has turned her research skills onto another ...