His widow,
Sonora Babb, waited 65 years in the shadow of a literary giant for
her first completed novel to be published. Upstaged in 1939 by
John Steinbeck's best-selling "The Grapes of Wrath" her tale about the
travails of a Depression-era farm family was shelved by Random House.
At 97, Babb earned long-overdue praise for the novel "Whose Names Are
Unknown" when it was rescued by the University of Oklahoma Press in
2004.