Sanora Babb, born in 1907 in Oklahoma Territory, is the author of five books, as well as numerous essays, short stories, and poems.|Lawrence Rodgers, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University, Corvallis, is author of Canaan Bound: The African-American Great Migration Novel.
The publication of Whose Names Are Unknown rights a decades-old
literary wrong."" - The Salt Lake Tribune
Babb puts a human face on the ""Okies"" and others who faced
economic and social disaster, yet managed to retain their
humanness, faith, and inner dignity. Is it better that Steinbeck's
The Grapes of Wrath? I think so, but you be the judge"" - Mike
Nobles, Tulsa World
""As vibrant and timely today as when it was begun in the migrant
camps of California, Sanora Babb's first novel depicts the pride,
suffering, and resilience of uprooted Anglo farmers who confront
economic and ecological disaster. Resisting forces within society
that devalue and marginalize them, the declassed refugees work
together to form enduring communities."" - Douglas Wixson, author
of Worker-Writer in America: Jack Conroy and the Tradition of
Midwestern Literary Radicalism, 1898-1869
""Sanora Babb's Whose Names Are Unknown has enjoyed an underground
reputation for many years among those scholars who have known of
its existence. Babb is a skillful artist who identified
wholeheartedly with the ordeal of the dispossessed during the
1930s. The recovery of her novel is a miraculous gift that will
play an important part in future reconsiderations of mid-century
U.S. literature."" - Alan M. Wald, author of Exiles from a Future
Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left
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