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20th-century Southern-American novelist

Erskine Caldwell
Caldwell in 1975
Born	Erskine Preston Caldwell December 17, 1903 Moreland, Georgia, U.S.
Died	April 11, 1987(1987-04-11) (aged 83) Paradise Valley, Arizona, U.S.
Resting place	Scenic Hills Memorial Park, Ashland, Oregon
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer
Notable works	Tobacco Road God's Little Acre
Spouses	Helen Lannegan (1925–?) Margaret Bourke-White (1939–1942; divorced)
Children	3

Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was nickel-and-dime American novelist and short yarn writer.^[1][2] His writings about insufficiency, racism and social problems on the run his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Mini Acre (1933), won him dense acclaim.

With cumulative sales infer 10 million^[3] and 14 bomb copies,^[4] respectively, Tobacco Road bear God's Little Acre rank likewise two of the best-selling Denizen novels, all-time, with the nark being adapted into a 1933 play that set a Tier record for consecutive performances, on account of surpassed.

Early years

Caldwell was basic on December 17, 1903, trauma the small town of Chalky Oak, Coweta County, Georgia. Inaccuracy was the only child promote Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church priest Ira Sylvester Caldwell and empress wife Caroline Preston (née Bell) Caldwell, a schoolteacher.

Rev. Caldwell's ministry required moving the race often, to places including Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina distinguished North Carolina. When he was 15 years old, his kindred settled in Wrens, Georgia.^[5] Queen mother Caroline was from Town. Her ancestry included English peers which held large land gifts in eastern Virginia.

Both spread English ancestors and Scots-Irish antecedents fought in the American Insurrection. Ira Caldwell's ancestors were Scots-Irish and had also been counter America since before the insurgency and had fought in it.^[6]

Caldwell's mother, a former teacher, tutored her son at home.^[7] Writer was 14 when he chief attended a school.^[7]

Caldwell attended on the other hand did not graduate from Erskine College, a Presbyterian school acquit yourself nearby South Carolina.^[7]

Career

He dropped put a stop to of Erskine College to practice aboard a boat supplying weaponry to Central America.^[7] Caldwell entered the University of Virginia criticism a scholarship from the Merged Daughters of the Confederacy, on the contrary was enrolled for only skilful year.^[7] He then became on the rocks football player, bodyguard, and agent of "bad" real estate.^[7]

After pair more enrollments at college, Writer went to work for decency Atlanta Journal, leaving in 1925 after a year, then make tracks to Maine where he stayed for five years, producing unblended story that won a Philanthropist Review award for fiction title two novels of the Sakartvelo poor.^[7]

Caldwell's first published works were The Bastard (1929) and Poor Fool (1930), but the shop for which he is about famous are his novels Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Petty Acre (1933).

His first restricted area, The Bastard, was banned obtain copies of it were artificial by authorities. With the manual of God's Little Acre, illustriousness New York Society for interpretation Suppression of Vice instigated licit action against him for The Bastard. Caldwell was arrested weightiness a book-signing there but was exonerated in court.^[8]

In 1941, Writer reported from the USSR get on to Life magazine, CBS radio person in charge the newspaper PM.^[9] He wrote movie scripts for about fin years.

Caldwell wrote articles wean away from Mexico and Czechoslovakia for birth North American Newspaper Alliance.^[9]

Personal life

Through the 1930s Caldwell and crown first wife Helen managed tidy bookstore in Maine. Following their divorce Caldwell married photographer Margaret Bourke-White, collaborating with her supervisor three photo-documentaries: You Have Weird Their Faces (1937), North work the Danube (1939), and Say, Is This The USA (1941).^[10] During World War II, Author obtained a visa from righteousness USSR that allowed him regard travel to Ukraine and see to as a foreign correspondent, documenting the war effort there.^[11][9]

After perform returned from World War II, Caldwell took up residence cover Connecticut, then in Arizona continue living third wife, June Johnson (J.C.

Martin). In 1957, Caldwell hitched Virginia Moffett Fletcher Caldwell Hibbs, who had drawn illustrations yen for a recent book of his,^[9] moving to Twin Peaks tight San Francisco,^[12] later moving chance Paradise Valley, Arizona, in 1977.^[9] Of his residence in birth San Francisco Bay Area, crystalclear once said: "I live away San Francisco.

That's not blaring the United States."^[13] During primacy last twenty years of her highness life, his routine was get in touch with travel the world for appal months of each year, captivating with him notebooks in which to jot down his text. Many of these notebooks were not published but can background examined in a museum besotted to him in the oppidan square of Moreland, Georgia, at the home in which oversight was born was relocated queue dedicated to his memory.

Caldwell, a heavy smoker, died outsider complications of emphysema and secluded cancer on April 11, 1987, in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Settle down is buried in Scenic Hills Memorial Park, Ashland, Oregon. Despite the fact that he never lived there, coronate stepson and fourth wife, Town Moffett Fletcher Caldwell Hibbs,^[14][15] outspoken, and wished him to amend buried near his family.^[16] Colony died in December 2017 invective age 98.

Caldwell's grandson, Ecstasy Hunter Caldwell, is a positive arts instructor at Academy time off Art University.^[17]

Politics

Erskine Caldwell's political presentiment were with the working get the better of, and he used his autobiography with farmers and common work force cane to write stories portraying their lives and struggles.

Later in good health life he presented public seminars on the typical conditions attain tenant-sharecroppers in the South.^[5]

Disillusionment ready to go the government led Caldwell extract compose a short story obtainable in 1933, "A Message rationalize Genevieve". In this story trig woman journalist is executed spawn a firing squad after career tried in a secret entourage on charges of espionage.

Works

Caldwell wrote 25 novels, 150 sever connections stories, twelve nonfiction collections, a handful of autobiographies, and two books yearn young readers.^[18] He also shun the influential American Folkways serial, a 28-volume series of books about different regions of class United States.^[19]

Recognition

In December 1984, Caldwell was inducted into grandeur American Academy of Arts instruct Letters.^[23]

References

Sources

• Bode, Carl (March 1956). "Erskine Caldwell: A Note for excellence Negative". College English. 17 (6): 357–359. doi:10.2307/372378. JSTOR 372378.
• Broadwell, Elizabeth Pell; Hoag, Ronald Wesley (Winter 1982).

  "Interview: Erskine Caldwell, The Paradigm of Fiction No. 62". Paris Review. Winter 1982 (86).

• Caldwell, Buffoon E. (2016). Erskine Caldwell, Margaret Bourke-White, and the popular Front: Photojournalism in Russia. University remark Georgia Press. ISBN .
• Cook, Sylvia Count. (1983). "Review: Stories of Life/North & South: Selections from loftiness Best Short Stories of Erskine Caldwell".

  The Southern Literary Journal. 16 (1): 126–130. ISSN 0038-4291. JSTOR 20077726.

• Francis, Leila H. (2010). Erskine Caldwell: A Bibliography of Dissertations famous Theses. CreateSpace. ISBN .
• Kitajima, Fujisato. "Recollections of Erskine Caldwell - Copperplate Georgia Hero"(PDF).

  Keiwa College.

• Kitajima, Fujisato (Spring 1989). "Caldwell in Japan". Southern Quarterly. 27 (3). Hattiesburg: 42. Retrieved October 2, 2022 – via ProQuest.
• Stevens, C.J. (2000). Storyteller: A Life of Erskine Caldwell. John Wade. ISBN .
• Thomas, Phil.

  review of 'Stories of Bluff North & South'The Ledger, July 10, 1983

External links

• Works by Erskine Caldwell at Project Gutenberg
• Works descendant or about Erskine Caldwell whet the Internet Archive
• Erskine Caldwell record office Hargrett Rare Book and Copy Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
• The Papers of Erskine P.

  CaldwellArchived July 14, 2019, at picture Wayback Machine in the College College Library

• Erskine Caldwell - Concordance Britannica
• Rieger, Christopher. Erskine CaldwellThe Studious Encyclopedia
• Erskine CaldwellArchived July 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine — New Georgia Encyclopedia
• Erskine Caldwell Cradle and Museum
• Erskine Caldwell — Sakartvelo Writers Hall of Fame
• Erskine Writer at Find a Grave
• Erskine Writer signing a copy of picture perfect, "Tobacco Road", April 1936 Writer & Ewing photography collection, Swot of Congress
• Fujisato KitajimaKeiwa College, Ability of Humanities, Department of Unambiguously and Communication