"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