With his next novel,
God's Little Acre (1933), Caldwell became firmly established as a promising young writer. In 1935 he began his collaborations with photographer Margaret Bourke-White, whom he married in 1939, one year after his divorce from Lannegan (Caldwell and Bourke-White were divorced in 1942). After teaching at the New School for Social Research in 1938, he began a four-year period as a traveling newspaper correspondent, visiting and reporting on such diverse places as Mexico, Spain, Czechoslovakia, China, Mongolia, Turkestan, and Russia. From 1941 to 1955 Caldwell edited the American Folkways series of regional books. He married June Johnson in 1942 (divorced 1956), had one son, and in 1957 married Virginia Fletcher. He died in 1987 of lung cancer.
After his sale of"Midsummer Passion" to The New American Caravan in 1929 (the story also appeared as"July" in transition), Caldwell produced well over a hundred short stories by the early 1940s and was chiefly known as a short-fiction writer. And although his story production dropped off sharply after that decade in favor of the novel, he remarked as late as 1958 that "I don't think there is anything to compare with the short story.
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