"House of Earth," by the great Woody Guthrie, is a novel about the lives and hard times of a Dust Bowl-era farm couple. It's an entertaining but slight work in which very little actually happens. There's also a fascinating behind-the-scenes story involved.
Guthrie -- the iconic American troubadour, a self-appointed champion of the little guy -- wrote the book in 1946 and '47. But then, curiously, he made no real effort to get it published.
After his death in 1967, the manuscript was "lost" among his massive archives of journals, song lyrics and letters, only to be discovered last year at the University of Tulsa, although curators there aren't sure exactly how and when they came into possession of it.
Next, actor Johnny Depp, launching his own publishing imprint at HarperCollins, stepped in. So more than 65 years after Guthrie completed "House of Earth," the novel finally has seen the light of day as the first release from Depp's Infinitum Nihil line. MORE HERE & HERE
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