Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Sanora Babb" in English language version.
a party member of 11 years
I have never stopped thinking of you as somebody rare and extraordinary and fine and wonderful and truly beautiful.
When the miscegenation laws were repealed, it took them three days to find a judge who would marry them. When they finally did, the judge remarked 'She looks old enough. If she wants to marry a chink, that's her business.'
Unbeknownst to Babb, Collins was sharing her reports with writer John Steinbeck. Some of this reporting informed Steinbeck's 1936 series of articles The Harvest Gypsies. By the time she was ready to publish her work, in the winter of 1939, Steinbeck had come out with his own Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck's book was dedicated to Tom Collins and was an immediate best-seller—such a hit, New York editors told Babb, that the market could not bear another on the same subject.
The Photography of James Wong Howe, notes and photocopy of published article by Sylvester Davis, pseudonym used by Sanora Babb (published in California Arts and Architecture, 1939)
