The American writer Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) was one of the best-selling authors of all time. His novels and stories are distinguished by their brutally realistic depiction of the rural South; his early work was outstanding for a sexual candor...

Erskine Caldwell 's more than fifty volumes of fiction and nonfiction represent a major contribution to twentieth-century American letters, and they have probably had as powerful an effect on American life as the works of Hemingway or Fitzgerald....

The son of Ira S. Caldwell, a Presbyterian minister, and Caroline Preston Bell, a school-teacher, Erskine Caldwell was born in White Oak, Georgia, and because of the expediencies of his father's profession, the family moved often, living in various...

Although Erskine Caldwell gradually descended into obscurity, during his heyday in the 1930s and 1940s his books were perennial best-sellers. Notorious for the explicit sexuality in his novels about Southern poor whites, Caldwell withstood several...

Erskine Preston Caldwell (b. December 17 1903, Coweta County, Georgia – d. April 11 1987) was an American author. He was born in a house in the woods outside Moreland, Georgia, the son of a minister in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church....

WITH ALL MY MIGHT An Autobiography By Erskine Caldwell Peachtree. 332 pp. $19.95 BY MY COUNT, this makes the third autobiography by Erskine Caldwell. Call It Experience (1951) described Caldwell's career from his teens onward. Deep South (1968), though ostensibly an account of a...

The effort to revive Erskine Caldwell in the consciousness of readers and scholars has been lurching along for over two decades now. It started slowly, in 1974, when William A. Sutton, after abandoning a proposed biography of the writer, published Black Like It...

In the following essay, Mixon argues that Caldwell's later works were less successful than his early writing because he failed to recognize major social changes in the American South.

In the following excerpt from his book-length study of Caldwell, Devlin assesses the language, imagery, themes, and other facets of the author's short fiction.

In the following interview, originally published in 1984, Caldwell discusses his life in the South, his early literary influences, and his opinions about censorship and racism.