Caldwell, Erskine [Preston]
Caldwell, Erskine [Preston]( 1903–87),born in Georgia, after study at the University of Virginia published two novelettes in 1930, The Bastard and Poor Fool, but first won fame with Tobacco Road (1932), dramatized by Jack Kirkland. Like his next novel, God's Little Acre (1933), it showed a rich sense of folk humor, indignation at social inequities, and a lusty bawdiness. One or more of these elements is seen in later novels, including Journeyman (1935); Trouble in July (1940), about race hatred in the South; Tragic Ground (1944), about a Georgia farmer stranded in a war-boom town; House in the Uplands (1946); The Sure Hand of God (1947), about a small-town woman's search for a man for herself and a husband for her daughter; This Very Earth (1948); A Place Called Estherville (1949), about black-white relations in a small Southern town; Episode in Palmetto (1950), about a...
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