An Owl on Every Post Author:Sanora Babb Sanora Babb experienced pioneer life in a one-room dugout, eye-level with the land that supported, tormented and beguiled her; where her family fought for their lives against drought, crop-failure, starvation, and fathomless loneliness. Learning to read from newspapers that lined the dugout?s dirt walls, she grew up to be a journalist, then a wr... more »iter of unforgettable books about the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The author was seven when her parents moved from the security of a small town to homestead an isolated 320 acre farm on the western plains. She tells the story through her eyes as a sensitive, fearless young girl who came to love the wind, the vastness, the mystery and magic in the ordinary. The joy she found in her surroundings and in her family?s quietly courageous lives draws the reader in to a far simpler time in the American west. This evocative memoir of a pioneer childhood on the Great Plains is written with the lyricism and sensitivity that distinguishes all of Sanora Babb?s writing. An Owl on Every Post, with its environmental disasters and extreme weather, mortgage foreclosures, harsh living conditions, resonates as much today as the period it depicts a hundred years ago. What this true story of Sanora?s prairie childhood reveals best are the values?courage, pride, determination, and love?that kept her family from total despair. Sanora Babb is the author of five books, as well as numerous essays, short stories, and poems that were published in literary magazines alongside the work of William Saroyan, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Anne Porter, and William Carlos Williams. ?The lyricism of Sanora Babb?s writing defines the luminous and transcendent landscape of this extraordinary memoir?.On a par stylistically and thematically with Willa Cather?s My Antonia, this is a classic that deserves to be rediscovered and cherished for years to come.??Linda Miller, Professor of American Literature at Penn State, author of Letters from the Lost Generation, and chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board for The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway.« less