Caldwell, Erskine (1903-1987)
Although Erskine Caldwell gradually descended into obscurity, during his heyday in the 1930s and 1940s his books were perennial best-sellers. Notorious for the explicit s...
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The American writer Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) was one of the best-selling authors of all time. His novels and stories are distinguished by their brutally realistic depiction of the rural South; his...
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Erskine Caldwell 's more than fifty volumes of fiction and nonfiction represent a major contribution to twentieth-century American letters, and they have probably had as powerful an effect on American...
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The son of Ira S. Caldwell, a Presbyterian minister, and Caroline Preston Bell, a school-teacher, Erskine Caldwell was born in White Oak, Georgia, and because of the expediencies of his father's pro...
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