San Antonio College Library

Since the 1930s, Erskine Caldwell's writings have provoked laughter and pathos, curiosity and disbelief. His perplexing characters, comically motivated only by their instincts for survival, allowed Caldwell to illustrate the duality of human nature as he explored the social issues of his times in such celebrated novels as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. Behind Caldwell's social protest and his comic characters lay a man whose life imitated art....

The celebrated novelist discusses his life and career, including his four marriages, his struggles to get his work accepted by a publisher, and the attempts to ban his work.

This book looks at Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White's collaborations, the adventures that led to them, the evolving political stances that informed them, and the aftereffects and influences of their work on their careers and those of others. Caldwell's novels Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933) made the author a popular chronicler of the South but also a controversial one, due to his work's political themes and depictions of...

"In this reassessment of the American South and its literature, Richard Gray explores the idea of regionalism by focusing on those writers whose relationship with the South has been particularly problematical. Asking just what it means to belong to a place, a region - and, more specifically, what it implies for certain Americans to call themselves Southerners - he analyzes conflicting notions of the South that have evolved over the past two centuries....