A Dust Bowl Book of Days, 1932 by Craig Volk. Based on the writing of Margaret Spader Neises and Joan Neises Volk.

Author Craig Volk draws on the Great Depression-era diaries of the grandmother Margaret and an unpublished memoir of his mother, Joan Neises Volk to showcase the women who preserved and guided their families through adversity. By synthesizing numerous short entries written throughout the thirties in the single year of 1932, Volk crafts an engaging narrative that provides unique insight into daily life amid hard times.

Hardback. 85 pages
ISBN: 978-1-941813-29-4

About the author: Craig Volk was born and raised in Mitchell, South Dakota. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of South Dakota and earned an MFA in playwriting and screenwriting from the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut. Volk Spent twelve years in the television and fil, industry in Los Angeles, California, including time spent as a writer for the Emmy-winning series Northern Exposure. He is the author of three published collections of poetry, and his stage scripts have been selected three times for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. His play Mayakovsky Takes the Stage won the 2007 PEN-USA award for best drama. Volk is an associate professor of theater, film, and video production at the University of Colorado-Denver. 

Image description: The cover has an image of an old diary or journal on the bottom half of the cover. The bottom half has a dark brown background and has the title, subtitle, and author's name printed on it.