OBU prof’s book on Dust Bowl remembers struggle, receives national recognition • Biblical Recorder

OBU prof’s book on Dust Bowl remembers struggle, receives national recognition • Biblical Recorder

SHAWNEE, Okla. — Benjamin Myers’ 2019 sonnet cycle Black Sunday has been named one of the “Five Best: Stories of the Dust Bowl” by The Wall Street Journal, earning recognition alongside John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.” The national spotlight came in a June 25 story by novelist Hazel Gaynor, who praised Black Sunday for placing readers “right there, as if we are peering through the window of a homestead on an Oklahoma prairie.” Myers, dire…