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

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

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

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

Are books getting too long? The Scottish writer Ian Rankin thinks so, and has told a literary festival that crime novels ...

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

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Netflix has ordered East of Eden, a seven episode limited series based on John Steinbeck’s famed novel in 1952. The book was adapted from the epic film of the same name in 1955 directed by Elia ...

Can a historical western war novel offer a way forward? During World War II, the renowned American author John Steinbeck wrote the short novel The Moon is Down at the request of General William J.