@irjohnso

Poet, Biographer, Critic. Author of Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb @ucpress @Colorado_Review @triohousepress @OUPress

 Sebastopol, CA
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Joined May 2008
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Thanks to @washingtonpost for including @irjohnso's RIDING LIKE THE WIND: The Life of Sanora Babb in their 50 notable works of nonfiction from 2024! tinyurl.com/yt9z7x5r

50 notable works of nonfiction from 2024

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

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If you're counting, that's THREE bestseller lists for @irjohnso Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb (which is now a month old!) & & & Dunkle has just been named to the 2025 @bookcritics board! tulsapeople.com/about-town/o…

Oklahoma best sellers: Nov. 17

This week's Oklahoma best sellers are based on total number of sales at Tulsa's Magic City Books, Best of Books in Edmond, Brace Books in Ponca City, and Full Circle

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There's @irjohnso in Review of Reviews at @theweek for RIDING LIKE THE WIND: THE LIFE OF SANORA BABB!
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Thanks to @newrepublic for the review of @irjohnso's "compassionate and respectful biography" RIDING LIKE THE WIND: The Life of Sanora Babb: newrepublic.com/article/1882…

The Woman Who Defined the Great Depression

John Steinbeck based “The Grapes of Wrath” on Sanora Babb’s notes. But she was writing her own American epic.

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SANORA BABB & @irjohnso in @NorthBayNews @ucpress pressdemocrat.com/article/en…
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D. A. Powell@Powell_DA6 Nov 2024
No rhyme can be said where reason has fled --June Jordan
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Sanora Babb & @irjohnso are USA TODAY BESTSELLERS! ☀️ Get your copy here: ucpress.edu/books/riding-lik…
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Catamaran Lit@CatamaranLit23 Oct 2024
Join us Friday, Nov 1st, to celebrate Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s new biography "Riding Like the Wind" telling the story of Sanora Babb whose interviews and notes informed Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" and led to the cancellation of Babb's own novel. Details: catamaranliteraryreader.com/…
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🍂 Nothing like a Great Fall Book Preview at the_millions! 🍂 AND featuring @irjohnso Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb! @ucpress themillions.com/2024/10/the-…
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Tonight at 7pm, Iris Jamahl Dunkle who will read from her "heartbreaking and heroic (Ken Burns)" new biography of novelist Sanora Babb, Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb.  She’ll be joined in conversation by UIowa Professor Harry Stecopoulos.
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All night your moth-breath Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen: A far sea moves in my ear. —Sylvia Plath, born #OTD in 1932 poets.org/poem/morning-song

Morning Song

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

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To kickoff our #WHA2024 blog series, @irjohnso's RIDING LIKE THE WIND recaptures the life of author Sanora Babb. Did you know Sanora's first essay she wrote was called "How to Handle Men"? Find out more about Sanora Babb: tinyurl.com/bdh99u89
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ICYMI: Read an excerpt from Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb by @irjohnso in @salon! @ucpress salon.com/2024/10/15/steinbe…
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@parisreview23 Oct 2024
“A writer is someone who pays attention to the world.” —Susan Sontag buff.ly/3rC1BCU
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Fantastic biographer @irjohnso chats with Dr. Miranda Melcher for @newbooksnetwork about Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb newbooksnetwork.com/riding-l…
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@lithub17 Oct 2024
.@irjohnso on the unique challenges of writing biographies of women: “…it takes an intentional way of looking in order to see the facts that add up to a different, buried truth.” lithub.com/correcting-for-th…

Correcting for the Male Gaze: On the Unique Challenges of Writing Biographies of Women

You might know Sanora Babb as the wife of the Academy Award-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe. She also had many tantalizing affairs with the likes of Ralph Ellison and Harry Stetson (yes, of…

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The media is buzzing about @irjohnso's new #biography of #SanoraBabb! Read more about RIDING LIKE THE WIND in @washingtonpost: tinyurl.com/mtjdsdju, @TheAtlantic: tinyurl.com/3cerxfz2, and @Salon: tinyurl.com/mwc4mnpe.

Review | John Steinbeck stole her thunder, but Sanora Babb was unstoppable

In “Riding Like the Wind,” Iris Jamahl Dunkle recounts Babb’s adventurous life and makes the case for her neglected books.

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A reclamation of Sanora Babb? We think so! @irjohnso new biography Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb in @theatlantic theatlantic.com/books/archiv…
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@TheAtlantic10 Oct 2024
John Steinbeck beat Sanora Babb to the great American Dust Bowl novel—using her field notes, @mathitak writes. What do we owe her today? theatlantic.com/books/archiv…

The Woman Who Would Be Steinbeck

John Steinbeck beat Sanora Babb to the great American Dust Bowl novel—using her field notes. What do we owe her today?

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NBCC board member @irjohnso was featured on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast with Kelly McMasters: buff.ly/3ATgYey
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