Iris Jamahl Dunkle is a literary biographer and the former Poet Laureate of Sonoma County, California. Her book Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb will be published fall 2024 by the University of California Press.
Sanora Babb. Photo by Don Ornitz; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Courtesy of Joanne Dearcopp For the last several years, I’ve been working on a biography of the writer Sanora Babb (1907–2005), a rebel for any age and master of reportage who is today basically forgotten. Raised poor in eastern
