Sanora Babb

Novelist

Birthday April 21, 1907

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Oklahoma

DEATH DATE Dec 31, 2005 (98)

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About

An American fiction writer and poet, she is particularly known for the novels An Owl on Every Post and Whose Names Are Unknown. Her other works include Told in the Seed, The Lost Traveler, Cry of the Tinamou, and On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps.

Before Fame

After studying briefly at the University of Kansas, she worked as a journalist for the Garden City Herald.

Trivia

She helped set up government camps in CA in 1930's to serve the Dust Bowl migrants who arrived seeking a better life, the same time that she wrote Whose Names Are Unknown. During the 1940s, she was the West Coast secretary of the League of American Writers.

Family Life

She grew up in the Otoe Native American territory, an area of present-day Oklahoma. She married cinematographer James Wong Howe in 1937.

Associated With

She is said to have had an affair with Ralph Ellison.