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Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States , in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933), won him critical acclaim.
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The Bastard, a 1929 novel by Erskine Caldwell; Bastard!!, a manga by Kazushi Hagiwara (since 1988) The Bastard, a 1974 novel by John Jakes "Bâtard" ("Bastard" or "Mongrel"), a 1902 short story by Jack London; Der momzer (The Bastard), a Yiddish play by Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin; La Bâtarde, memoir by Violette Leduc
The Bastard is a historical novel written by John Jakes and originally published in 1974. It is book one in a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles or the American Bicentennial Series. [ 1 ] The novel mixes fictional characters with historical events or people, to tell the story of the United States of America in the time period leading up ...
The American Folkways is a 28-volume series of books, initiated and principally edited by Erskine Caldwell, and published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce from 1941 to 1955. [1] Each book focused on a different region, or "folkway", of the United States, including documentary essays and folklore from that region. [2]
Although his reputation as an editor is most closely linked to these three, Perkins worked with many other writers. He was the first to publish J. P. Marquand and Erskine Caldwell. His advice was responsible for the success of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, whose The Yearling (1938) grew out of suggestions made by Perkins.
A restaurant has sparked a debate after kicking out a Fox News analyst over a political conversation that his table was having.. The political analyst, Gianno Caldwell, took to Twitter on Saturday ...
God's Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell about a dysfunctional farming family in Georgia obsessed with sex and wealth. The novel's sexual themes were so controversial that the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice asked a New York state court to censor it.