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Sanora Babb
An autobiographical novel, long out of print, continues Sanora Babb’s story as begun in her memoir, An Owl on Every Post. Set in Kansas in the early 1930s, it is…
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Written during and of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression era, from personal experience, Babb evokes a strong sense of place, complex family relationships, and a strong environmental or eco-feminist…
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Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells an intimate story of the High Plains farmers who fled drought dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for…
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The essays collected in Unknown No More recover and analyse Sanora Babb’s previously unrecognised contributions to American letters. Editors Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith have assembled a group of…
Reprint. Originally published: New York: McCall, 1970; afterword copyright 1994.
A collection of stories including The Santa Ana , The Wild Flower , Cry of the Tinamou , and Davy .
A vivid, firsthand account of the migrations, immigrant camps, and labor organizing of displaced Midwestern farmers during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, illustrated with striking photographs.
Told in the Seed and Selected Poems offers poems from Sanora Babb’s more than sixty years of writing and publishing poetry. This new collection adds many of her earliest poems…
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This saga of a writer done dirty resurrects the silenced voice of Sanora Babb, peerless author of midcentury American literature.
In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was…
