Whose names are unknown : a novel / Sanora Babb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Babb, Sanora.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farmers--Fiction.

Farmers.

Labor camps--Fiction.

Labor camps.

Depressions--Fiction.

Depressions.

Rural families--Fiction.

Rural families.

Migrant agricultural laborers--Fiction.

Migrant agricultural laborers.

Oklahoma--Fiction.

Oklahoma.

California--Fiction.

California.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 222 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2004]

Summary:

Sanora Babb's long-hidden novel "Whose Names Are Unknown" tells of the High Plains farmers who fled drought and dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers' plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author's firsthand experience. Babb submitted the manuscript for this book to Random House for consideration in 1939. Editor Bennett Cerf planned to publish this "exceptionally fine" novel but when John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" swept the nation, Cerf explained that the market could not support two books on the subject.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Schimmel Collection copy has reproduction of The women's review of books, v. 21, no. 10-11, p. 10-11, with review of this work laid in.

ISBN:

0806135794

OCLC:

52937778