His prolific career as an author was launched by The Bastard, (1929), Poor Fool (1930), and American Earth (1931).īut it was the 1932 publication of Tobacco Road that assured Caldwell's success. Discovering that newspaper work left him no time for creative writing, Caldwell retreated to Maine for four years. In 1925 he left the University of Virginia to become a reporter for the Atlanta Journal, and he married the first of his four wives, Helen Lannigan, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. Caldwell's schooling was fragmentary he attended high school sporadically and took college courses at the University of Pennsylvania, at Erskine College, in South Carolina, and at the University of Virginia.Īs a young man, he worked in Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Baltimore as a mill laborer, farmhand, cotton picker, cook, stagehand in a burlesque house, and book reviewer. His father was a Presbyterian minister, and the family moved frequently throughout the South.
His novels and stories are distinguished by their brutally realistic depiction of the rural South his early work was outstanding for a sexual candor uncommon in its time.Įrskine Caldwell was born in backwoods Coweta Country, in the town of White Oak, Georgia, on Dec.
The American writer Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) was one of the best-selling authors of all time.
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