She Shared Her Notes with John Steinbeck. It was Her Novel’s Undoing.
Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed ‘The Grapes of Wrath.” The book’s success led to the cancellation of ...
John Steinbeck stole her thunder, but Sanora Babb was unstoppable
In “Riding Like the Wind,” Iris Jamahl Dunkle recounts Babb’s adventurous life and makes the case for her neglected books.
Steinbeck mined her research for "The Grapes of Wrath." Then her own Dust Bowl novel was squashed
Migrant camp worker Sanora Babb wrote what could have been the era's definitive book. Instead she became a footnote ...
The Woman Who Would Be Steinbeck
John Steinbeck beat Sanora Babb to the great American Dust Bowl novel—using her field notes. What do we owe her today?
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Who'd've thought: John Steinbeck’s classic novel 'The Grapes of Wrath' is only a little easier to read than children's book 'Mr Greedy'
In a study measuring language difficulty, statisticians have analysed the text of more than 33,000 books and determined ... less complex than that used in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
13 Things You Might Not Have Known About John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’
The book has been opposed for some strange reasons ... on mentalfloss.com as 13 Things You Might Not Have Known About John ...
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Books Behind Bars
It starts in the 1930s, when there were efforts to ban John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. That book was published in 1939, and at the time, people found the language shocking and inappropriate.
Leave the World Behind author Rumaan Alam: ‘The authors I’ve read the most are like my own private university’
The authors I’ve read the most are like my own private university’ - WRITERS ON READING: As the ‘Leave the World Behind’ ...
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Seaworthy experiences are on deck at this Western Flyer auction
THAT MIGHT HAPPEN, at least for a few high bidders in the Western Flyer Foundation auction, which will stay afloat through ...
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‘East Of Eden’ From Zoe Kazan A Go At Netflix
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 ...
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The power of fiction: Why North Korea needs its own 'Moon is Down'
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.