Claim: The multi award-winning book, the Grapes of Wrath about poor families of tenant farmers during the Great Depression, was written by John Steinbeck after he was given some notes written by Sanora Babb, this caused her to push through publication of hrt own book muck more quickly.
Evidence: Bennett Cerf planned to publish the novel with Random House, but the appearance of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath caused publication to be shelved in 1939. Her novel was not published until 2004. Without her knowledge, the notes were given to John Steinbeck by her supervisor Tom Collins.