Caldwell, Erskine - Harold Strauss (essay date 1936)

Harold Strauss (essay date 1936)

SOURCE: "A Caldwell Item," in The New York Times Book Review, December 20, 1936, p. 7.

[In the following review of The Sacrilege of Alan Kent, written at the time of the work's publication as a separate volume, Strauss finds it an interesting but "youthful and unsuccessful" experiment.]

Erskine Caldwell has had a curious literary career, and the obscure record of his publications will tantalize and delight the collectors, for whom this handsome volume [The Sacrilege of Alan Kent] is obviously designed. His early work was privately printed, and his first short stories appeared in such out of the way and now extinct little magazines as Clay, Contact, Contempo, Folk-Say, The lion and Crown, The New English Weekly and Pagany. A collection of stories appeared under the title American Earth, and was passed by almost unnoticed. Tobacco Road first brought Caldwell to the...

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