Literature|Steinbeck’s Fruits of Wrath became a bestseller and a Pulitzer winner, Babb’s book was not published until decades later.
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The biography Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb is about journalist-author Sanora Babb.
Babb worked with migrant workers who arrived in California in the 1930s.
John Steinbeck used Babb’s interview notes as the basis for his novel Fruits of Wrath.
Sanora Babb’s Whose Names Are Unknown was not published until 2004.
Stateside a biographical book published in mid-October Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb (University of California Press) says journalist-author Sonora Babbista (1907–2005), who worked with migrant workers who arrived in California in the late 1930s.
In the 1930s, a drought in the central plains of the United States and the resulting huge dust storms forced hundreds of thousands to move from their homes. Many of them arrived in California, and Babb, himself a native of Oklahoma, began working as a volunteer in migrant camps in 1938 to obtain material for his novel in progress.
A biographer Iris Jamahl Dark has studied Babb’s life and career extensively and tells, among other things, how Babb was blacklisted in the 1940s for being a member of the Communist Party. The New York Timesin interviewed Dunkle, however, wonders why Babb is not usually mentioned by his contemporaries like William Saroyanin this John Fanten in connection with.
Predominant a written meeting, although very short, probably still happened John Steinbeckin with in 1938. Either Babb himself or his predecessor Tom Collins gave Steinbeck the interview notes made by Babb, which Steinbeck then used to describe the plight of the immigrants The fruits of anger – as the base material for his novel.
Appearing the following year The fruits of anger became a huge bestseller and a Pulitzer and National Book Award winner. The Nobel Committee too pointed out emphatically to this very book when Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962.
Sanora Babbi’s publisher, on the other hand, canceled its publishing contract after Babbi was already ready Whose Names are Unknown -book, claiming that the book market cannot accommodate two books on the same subject. However, Dunkle argued that it was just an excuse.
As The Atlantic -lehden Mark Athitakis to write, at the same time, stories about World War II battles in the Pacific, for example, were well received in the market Herman Woukin Caine’s Rebellion and by James Jones From here to eternityboth from 1951.
Warehouse The subject of Steinbeck Babb’s book? It’s hard to say. Of course, Steinbeck had previously written about migrant workers who arrived in California, but on the other hand, there are clearly similar themes in Babb’s and Steinbeck’s books, the sources of which are Babb’s interview notes.
Even biographer Dunklek does not claim that Steinbeck directly plagiarized Babb, but only used materials compiled by Babb without citing the source, writes The Atlantic. Instead, Steinbeck dedicated the book to his wife For Carol – and for Sanora Babb’s frontman Tom Collins.
Sanora Babbin Whose Names Are Unknown was finally published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2004, a year before Babb’s death. It was then that Steinbeck researchers began to pay more attention to materials originating from Babb, Iris Jamahl Dunkle write in his work.