Caldwell, Erskine (Vol. 1) | Caldwell, Erskine 1903–
Caldwell, Erskine 1903–
A Southern American novelist, Caldwell is noted for his graphically naturalistic novels and stories, especially Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
There is a special sort of humor in America, native to our earth and deep-rooted in our history. Its material is the man who has been left behind in the rush to develop our frontiers, the man who has stayed in one place, out of and away from the main current of our developing civilization, so largely untouched by what we think of as progress that his folkways and mores seem to us, at their best, quaint and a little exotic—and, at their worst, degenerate…. [This humor] has been the main source, as well as the great strength, of Erskine Caldwell's novels….
In technique [Trouble in July], rather than the all too famous Tobacco Road, is Caldwell's most successful book to date. Here...
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