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Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. [7] [8] His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933) won him critical acclaim.
Apr 7, 2024 · Erskine Caldwell was an American author whose unadorned novels and stories about the rural poor of the American South mix violence and sex in grotesque tragicomedy. His works achieved a worldwide readership and were particularly esteemed in France and the Soviet Union. Caldwell’s father was a home.
Jul 10, 2002 · Over the course of a long career, Erskine Caldwell wrote twelve books of nonfiction, twenty-five novels, and nearly 150 short stories. He was intent on depicting life among the lowly in Georgia and the rest of the South, and his concern for the less fortunate— poor whites and Blacks—shines in his great novels and short stories of the 1930s ...
Erskine Caldwell has 274 books on Goodreads with 48507 ratings. Erskine Caldwell’s most popular book is Tobacco Road.
Jun 27, 2018 · Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903–April 11, 1987) was a prolific writer whose novels, stories, and nonfiction about the American South combined burlesque humor, social criticism, brutal violence, and graphic sexuality.
Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South won him critical acclaim, but they also made him controversial among fellow Southerners of the time who felt he was holding the region up to ridicule. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_...
Apr 13, 1987 · Erskine Caldwell, the prolific novelist whose accounts of deprivation and depravity in the Depression-era Deep South brought him instant fame and instant notoriety, died of lung cancer Saturday...
Erskine Caldwell. Moreland, Georgia. Born in Moreland, Georgia in 1903, Erskine Caldwell spent much of his youth moving about the South as his father, a Presbyterian minister, moved from church to church. His mother was a Latin and English teacher.
Apr 12, 1987 · Erskine Caldwell, the writer who shocked readers and outraged many of his fellow southerners with unvarnished novels and short stories about squalid life in the cotton country backwoods, died...
Between 1929 and 1984, Erskine Caldwell published 26 novels, 16 collections of stories, 15 books of nonfiction, two children's books, and a collection of poetry. Two of his novels are easily among the most well-known works in twentieth-century America, either through the sheer number of copies sold or due to the many adaptations that they have ...
