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This article presents information related to the writer Erskine Caldwell who is primarily remembered, perhaps unjustly, as the author of novels and stories about southern poor whites and their lusty appetites. He came to national attention after a highly successful dramatic adaptation of his novel "Tobacco Road," opened on Broadway in 1933. Caldwell became one of the best-selling authors in American history, mostly through twenty-five-cent paperbacks featuring semiclad women on the covers. His father was more concerned with social justice than theology and from him the younger Caldwell gained a sensitivity to the plight of the poor that would be reflected in his writing. |
