Erskine Caldwell
Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South in novels such as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre won him critical acclaim, but also made him controversial among Southerners of the time who felt he was deprecating the...
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Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South in novels such as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre won him critical acclaim, but also made him controversial among Southerners of the time who felt he was deprecating the people of the region.
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Birth date: 1903-12-17
Died: 1987-04-11
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What I have is another strange little book produced by Russians during the U.S.S.R., so some stories in the description are missing. Caldwell's father was a Presbyterian minister, and the stories I have, to a letter, are morality plays, with an extra serving of melodrama for the hot weather.Sometime...
Erskine Caldwell was the son of a Presbyterian minister. It seems his Caldwell ancestors hailed from an area where one of my Caldwell ancestors came from, although the two families appear to have been unrelated. As a good Presyberian, Erskine Caldwell couldn't help moralizing about personal responsi...
Rating: 3.75* of fiveThe Book Report: First published in 1933, when the author was a mere slip of a thirty-year-old, this novel starts in a hole and keeps digging deeper and deeper. Literally, not metaphorically. Well, literally AND metaphorically.Ty Ty and his sons are poor white Southern Americans...
home audio- John MacDonald, Narrator- Unabridged- 4 tapes = 5 Hrs 17 Mins- Blackstone Audio Books- 1995Blurb -Tobacco Road is set in Augusta, Georgia during the worst years of the Great Depression. It depicts a family of poor white tenant farmers, the Lesters, as one of the many small Southern cotto...
In 1998, the Modern Library released a list of the 100 Best American Novels to much acclaim and much derision. Randian poltroons and sci-fi nerds and feminists and African-Americans and librarians and English majors and everyone but my mom whipped up a complaint about the list’s validity, but I was ...
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