The Voices of Glory

The novel, a collection of twenty-eight short stories, concerns Marcy Cresap, a social worker and reformer in the town of Glory, West Virginia.

[1] Time Magazine, in an unsigned review of October 19, 1962, stated: "The immense force of Grubb's writing is flung against enemies long since weakened or dead—boosterism, Babbittry, ignorant refusal to vaccinate schoolchildren.

[2] "A later novel, The Voices of Glory (1962), is one of Grubb's most ambitious works and most clearly demonstrates the concern for social justice that he learned from his mother.

The novel describes the trial of Mary Cresap, a US Department of Public Health nurse who attempts to supply the poor with free tuberculosis vaccinations during the Depression.

Critics were quick to compare the work to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology, to whom Grubb clearly owed a debt, and to praise its sense of town and community.