Whose Names Are Unknown A Novel

Sanora Babb's long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknowntells 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 Wrathswept the nation, Cerf explained that the market could not support two books on the subject.Babb, Sanora is the author of 'Whose Names Are Unknown A Novel', published 2004 under ISBN 9780806135793 and ISBN 0806135794.