Tobacco Road Summary
Erskine Caldwell

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Tobacco Road Summary

Tobacco Road is a novel by acclaimed writer Erskine Caldwell. Tobacco Road is the story of one family's inability to move on when life does not go as planned. Jeeter Lester has always worked the land on which his grandfather once farmed tobacco; however, debts have turned Jeeter into a sharecropper on land that the owner no longer wants to farm. Jeeter vows every year that he will find a way...

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Erskine Caldwell Biographies (3)

Erskine Caldwell

834 words, approx. 3 pages

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... Read more

Erskine (Preston) Caldwell

5,128 words, approx. 18 pages

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... Read more

Erskine (Preston) Caldwell

2,668 words, approx. 9 pages

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 pro... Read more

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