She Shared Her Notes with John Steinbeck. It was Her Novel's Undoing.
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Sanora Babb's experience among Dust Bowl refugees in California not only spurred her to write a novel, but also led to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, overshadowing her work.
Despite her dedication and firsthand experience in the migrant camps, Sanora Babb's novel was dismissed because of the overwhelming success of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
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