Riding like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
- Author
- Iris Jamahl Dunkle
- Content
- xvii + 377 pp., ill., bibl., index
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Oakland: University of California Press
- Description
- First biography of the American editor and writer whose chronicles of her work for the Farm Security Administration during the Dust Bowl were used without her knowledge by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath, had a contract for her own novel about that period canceled as a result, and was later blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- Main subject
- Autobiography and Biography
Literature and Literary Criticism - ISBN
- 9780520395442 (cloth); 9780520395473 (ebook)
- Citation
- Dunkle, Iris Jamahl. Riding like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. Sylvia. Accessed June 24, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL3695.
- Updated
- 10-31-2024