Erskine Caldwell (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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The son of a Southern Associate Reformed Presbyterian minister, Caldwell wrote novels that were felt by some to be obscene. His were the kinds of books sold with sexually provocative covers and, after purchase, hidden away. Because his stories were so widely disseminated through millions of paperback reprints as well as adaptations for stage and screen, he may have spent more time combatting censorship than any other American author.
Caldwell’s first encounter with censorship occurred when he tried to sell his first novel, The Bastard (1929), in...
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