Random House shelved Sanora Babb’s book Whose Names Are Unknown due to its similarity to this other novel, but Babb’s book was released 65 years later in 2004. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel, whose last chapter depicts a woman who gave birth to a stillborn baby breastfeeding a grown man on the brink of starvation.
ANSWER: The Grapes of Wrath
[10e] Babb criticized this author’s novel The Grapes of Wrath for not being as “realistic” as hers.
ANSWER: John Steinbeck
[10h] A 2020 Jeanine Cummins novel titled for dirt preceded by this adjective was controversially compared to The Grapes of Wrath. This adjective is the first title word of a Stephen Vincent Benet poem that ends with the line “Bury my heart at wounded knee.”
ANSWER: American [or American Dirt; or “American Names”]
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