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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.
Erskine Caldwell 1938, Foto von Carl van Vechten. Erskine Preston Caldwell (* 17. Dezember 1903 bei Moreland, Georgia; † 11. April 1987 in Paradise Valley, Arizona) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Als literarisch bedeutsam gilt insbesondere Caldwells Frühwerk.
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.
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13. Apr. 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...
17. Dez. 2003 · An article on Dec. 17 about the centennial of Erskine Caldwell's birth misstated the name of a New York hotel where he lived after the publication of his novel ''Tobacco Road.'' It was the...
With more than eighty million books sold to readers in nearly forty different languages, Erskine Caldwell is one of the most widely read literary figures of the twentieth century. His novel God’s Little Acre has alone sold over fourteen million copies.
Caldwell is not much read today, except for Tobacco Road, not least because the social realism he espoused is unfashionable. However, he had considerable success in his day and holds the distinction of being widely censored for his realistic approach to sex and violence.
