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Iris Jamahl Dunkle

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As seen in: The Atlantic, Flipboard, Salon, Datebook SF, SWWIM Every Day, Literary Hub, The Press Democrat, Napa Valley Register, San Diego Reader, CounterPunch and
Poet, Biographer, Critic. Author of Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb @ucpress @Colorado_Review @triohousepress @OUPress
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Preamble to the West

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By Iris Jamahl Dunkle
| The Atlantic Verified
Can’t lick the witch wind that carries rumors over shining aurora-lit prairies: horror of what comes to light at the dawn of the mind. Will you permit me to rise from my sinkhole, to draw in the dirt the garnet ring my grandmother sold for gas just to survive? Arrive anonymous, starved on hardtack and shame, in this place where she was erased? How will you animate this forgotten history?
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Ten Facts About the Fearless Writer Sanora Babb

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By Iris Jamahl Dunkle
| CounterPunch Verified
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb, shares ten intriguing facts about intrepid writer Sanora Babb — peerless author of midcentury American literature and remarkable rebel who challenged the era’s social and political norms. In 1939, when John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation’s collective imagination of the era.
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8 Biographies That Will Upend Your Perception of Famous Writers

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By Emily Van Duyne, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Jo Lou, Iris Jamahl Dunkle
| Electric Literature Verified
Whether we like it or not, literary history tends to follow a known path. In high school, we read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, and we are told this is the definitive book about The Dust Bowl. In college, we are introduced to T.S. Eliot’s long poem “The Waste Land” and told that this work is an example of high modernism.
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