 Erskine Caldwell photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1938 Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903-April 11, 1987) was an American author born in a house in the woods outside Moreland, Georgia in Coweta County. Caldwell was the son of a minister in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Erskine Caldwell photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 24, 1938 From the collection of the Library of Congress and in the public domain: http://memory. ...
Erskine Caldwell photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 24, 1938 From the collection of the Library of Congress and in the public domain: http://memory. ...
December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ...
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ...
Moreland is a town in Coweta County, Georgia, in the United States. ...
Coweta County is a county located in the state of Georgia. ...
The seal of the ARPC The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church is a small denomination, formed from the merger of the Associate (Seceder) and the Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) churches in Philadelphia in 1782. ...
His early childhood was spent moving from state to state across the South, as his father found a position in one church after another. The U.S. Southern states or The South, known during the American Civil War era as Dixie, is a distinctive region of the United States with its own unique historical perspective, customs, musical styles, and cuisine. ...
Later, he attended, but did not graduate from, Erskine College. He was athletic, played football, stood six feet tall, and has been described by one of his publishers to have an unusually kind face and otherwise angelic appearance. His political sympathies lay with blue collar workers, and as he went from job to job in his younger days, drew on his experiences with common workers to write books that extolled the simple life of those less fortunate than he was. Later in life, he gave seminars on low income tenant-sharecroppers in the American South. Erskine College is a four year, Christian liberal arts college located in Due West, South Carolina. ...
Sharecropping is a system of farming in which employee farmers work a parcel of land in return for a fraction of the parcels crops. ...
The U.S. Southern states or The South, known during the American Civil War era as Dixie, is a distinctive region of the United States with its own unique historical perspective, customs, musical styles, and cuisine. ...
His first and second published works were Bastard (1929) and Damn Fool (1930) but the works for which he is most famous are his novels Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933). Look up Bastard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers. ...
Gods Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell, which was filmed in 1958 by director Anthony Mann and lensed in black and white by master cameraman Ernie Haller [[1]]. The novel was so controversial that a literary board in New York attempted to censor it, leading to...
When his first book came out, it was banned (perhaps on the basis of the title alone), and copies were seized by authorities. Later, on the publication of God's Little Acre, authorities went even further and, at the instigation of the New York Literary Society (apparently incensed at Caldwell's choice of titles), arrested Caldwell and seized his copies when he went to New York for a book-signing event. A full trial exonerated Caldwell completely, and he counter-sued for false arrest and malicious prosecution. Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area Ranked 27th - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²) - Width 285 miles (455 km) - Length 330 miles (530 km) - % water 13. ...
Through the 1930s, Caldwell and his wife ran a bookstore in Maine. Official language(s) None Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 39th 33,414 sq mi 86,542 km² 190 miles 305 km 320 miles 515 km 13. ...
Caldwell was married to photographer Margaret Bourke-White from 1939 to 1942, and they collaborated on You Have Seen Their Faces (1937). Self portrait of Margaret Bourke-White Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and photo journalist. ...
1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ...
1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
At the height of World War II, Caldwell obtained papers from the USSR that allowed him to travel to the Ukraine and work as a foreign correspondent documenting the war effort there. Disillusionment with the stifling intrigues of the Stalinist regime led him to pen a four page short story, Message for Genevieve, published on returning to the United States in 1944. In this story, a woman journalist is executed by a firing squad after being tried in a secret court on charges of espionage. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the use of images on this page may require cleanup, involving adjustment of image placement, formatting, size, or other adjustments. ...
Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ...
1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ...
Espionage is the practice of obtaining information about an organization or a society that is considered secret or confidential (spying) without the permission of the holder of the information. ...
After he came back from World War II, Caldwell took up residence in San Francisco. His ex-wife kept the bookstore in Maine as a property settlement. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...
During the last twenty years of his life, he got into the habit of traveling around the world for six months out of each year, and he took with him numerous notebooks to jot down his ideas on. Many of these notebooks were not published, but made part of his legacy on death, and can be examined in a museum dedicated to him. The house he was born in, was moved from its initial site, and then preserved and made into a museum closer into town.
A lifelong smoker, Caldwell died of a tobacco-related illness on April 11, 1987.
Works
- Bastard, short story (1929)
- Damn Fool, short story (1930)
- American Earth, short story (1931)
- Tobacco Road (1932)
- Tobacco Road The Play adaptation by Jack Kirkland, based on the novel.
- We Are the Living, short story (1933)
- God's Little Acre (1933)
- Tenant Farmers, essay (1935)
- Some American People, essay (1935)
- Journeyman (1935)
- Kneel to the Rising Sun, short stories (1935)
- The Sacrilege of Alan Kent (1936)
- Southways, short story (1938)
- North of the Danube (1939)
- Trouble in July (1940)
- Say Is This the USA (1941)
- Moscow Under Fire, foreign correspondence (1942)
- Russia at War, foreign correspondence (1942)
- All-Out on the Road to Smolensk, foreign correspondence (1942)
- Georgia Boy (1943)
- Tragic Ground (1944)
- The Sure Hand of God (1947)
- This Very Earth (1948)
- A Place Called Estherville (1949)
 1959 paperback of Place Called Estherville (1949) - A Swell Looking Girl
- The Humorous Side of Erskine Caldwell, edited by Robert Cantwell
- Episode in Palmetto (1950)
- Call It Experience, autobiography (1951)
- The Courting of Susie Brown, short stories (1952)
- A Lamp for Nightfall (1952)
- Love and Money (1954)
- The Complete Stories of Erskine Caldwell
- Gretta (1955)
- Gulf Coast Stories, short stories (1956)
- Certain Women, short stories (1957)
- Claudelle Inglish (1958)
- Molly Cottontail, children's book (1958)
- When You Think of Me, short stories (1959)
- Annette
- Men and Women, short stories (1961)
- The Last Night of Summer (1963)
- In Search of Bisco, (travel writing, 1965)
- The Deer at Our House, children's book (1966)
- Writing in America, essay (1967)
- Deep South, (travel writing, 1968)
- Afternoons in Mid America, essays (1976)
- With All My Might, (autobiography, 1987)
Look up Bastard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers. ...
Gods Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell, which was filmed in 1958 by director Anthony Mann and lensed in black and white by master cameraman Ernie Haller [[1]]. The novel was so controversial that a literary board in New York attempted to censor it, leading to...
Kneel to the Rising Sun is a collection of short stories by Erskine Caldwell first published in 1935. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (422x700, 68 KB) Summary Place Called Estherville, copyright 1949 by Erskine Caldwell, 1959 Signet paperback edition. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (422x700, 68 KB) Summary Place Called Estherville, copyright 1949 by Erskine Caldwell, 1959 Signet paperback edition. ...
Robert Cantwell (January 31, 1908 — December 8, 1978) was a novelist and critic. ...
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