Joanne Dearcopp, Sanora Babb’s literary executor and agent,
is an author, writing coach, and publisher. She has worked at Simon
& Schuster, McCall Books, and Grolier Publishing.
Christine Hill Smith is Professor of
Humanities/Communication at Colorado Mountain College and the
author of Social Class in the Writings of Mary Hallock Foote and
coeditor of Sites of Insight: Colorado Sacred Places.
"This collection is a worthy addition to the bourgeoning
scholarship on Babb and convincingly makes the case that there is
far more to explore about this writer in the context of our present
moment."--Western American Literature
"This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in Babb's
life, regionalist literature, nature writing, literature of the
left and/or women's literature."--Dust Bowl Chronicle
"Unknown No More is the book that devoted readers of Sanora Babb
have been waiting for and new readers will greet as an invitation
to join her fan club--a wide-ranging set of essays that examine her
life and work in their fullest dimensions. Whether addressing Babb
the poet and storyteller of the West, the labor activist, the
environmentalist, or the champion of feminism and equality, the
essays together record the full dimension of Babb's pivotal
contributions to twentieth-century American life and
letters."--Lawrence Rodgers, coeditor of America's Folklorist: B.
A. Botkin and American Culture
"Unknown No More represents a heartfelt and compelling tribute to a
writer and activist whose work deserves to be read and studied
today. Building on but working to avoid the blunders of previous
scholarship that often paid insufficient attention to gender,
class, and region, the essays in this volume explore the emotions
and experience of overlooked and often misunderstood individuals
and communities. The book revives a crucial yet nearly lost
component of literary history in a way that seems destined for a
readership inside and outside the academy."--Julia L. Mickenberg,
Professor of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
"Exploring Babb's published work, her archives and personal life,
the authors included in this collection achieve the goal of
cementing Babb's place in the history of regionalist writers and
writers of the literary left. This collection is a valuable
addition to the current scholarship on Babb's life and work, and
achieves the editors' goal to "investigate how Babb's lived
experience gave rise to a unique voice that has been overlooked by
earlier recovery projects." It is a must-read for anyone interested
in Babb's life, regionalist literature, nature writing, literature
of the left and/or women's literature."--International
Viewpoint
"In the 1930s Sanora Babb created an American literary masterpiece
with her Dust Bowl novel, Whose Names Are Unknown. But by a cruel
twist of fate, it was not published for more than sixty years. We
believe it to be a much fuller account of the terrible conditions
and the resilient people living through those toughest of times.
This collection of essays explores Babb's eloquent writing in this
novel and in all her other work and helps set the record straight
on an important American author."--Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan,
producers of The Dust Bowl
"These thirteen new essays on Sanora Babb are a great development
in the rescue from obscurity of her marvelous literary work. With
an engaging style, scholars, researchers, academics, and a friend
of thirty years offer new perspectives on her fiction, poetry,
nonfiction, and her unusual early life in the Dust Bowl area, then
in Los Angeles among the literati, filmmakers, and progressives of
the 1930s and '40s. Unknown No More is a valuable contribution to
the ongoing campaign to rediscover the beautiful Sanora, a
forgotten writer and a vital, brilliant woman, and include her in
the American literary canon, where she belongs."--William Kennedy,
Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Ironweed, Quinn's Book, and
Roscoe
"These timely and engaging essays about the immensely talented
author Sanora Babb finally restore the writer to her due place in
American literary history. Offering insights about a politically
engaged figure who was of her era yet also ahead of her time, the
contributors make a convincing case for positioning Babb at the
center of our conversations about ecology, labor, race, gender, and
regional belonging."--Susan Kollin, editor of A History of Western
American Literature
"Unknown No More is the first collected volume focused entirely on
this important author and covering all of her work--her
wide-ranging poetry, short fiction, novels, memoir, journalism,
field notes, reviews, and letters. The authors whose essays are
gathered here advance Babb scholarship and revive her literary and
political reputation while also promoting a broader understanding
of the history of left-wing protest, the roots of ecofeminism, and
the sweep of Great Plains environmental history. These powerfully
written, pathbreaking contributions argue convincingly that Sanora
Babb was an immensely gifted, deeply committed writer and activist
whose time has come and whose courageous life and vivid art can
inspire a wide range of present-day general readers, scholars, and
activists."--Michael C. Steiner editor of Regionalists on the Left:
Radical Voices from the American West
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