Erskine Caldwell

Novelist

Erskine Caldwell was born in Coweta County, Georgia, United States on December 17th, 1903 and is the Novelist. At the age of 83, Erskine Caldwell biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
December 17, 1903
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Coweta County, Georgia, United States
Death Date
Apr 11, 1987 (age 83)
Zodiac Sign
Sagittarius
Profession
Children's Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Writer
Erskine Caldwell Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

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Erskine Caldwell Religion, Education, and Hobbies
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Erskine Caldwell Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
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Helen Lannegan, (1925-?) three children, Margaret Bourke-White, (1939-?), June Johnson, (1942-?), a son, Jay., Virginia Moffett Fletcher Caldwell Hibbs, (1957-1987)
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Erskine Caldwell Career

He dropped out of Erskine College to sign aboard a boat supplying guns to Central America. Caldwell entered the University of Virginia with a scholarship from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, but was enrolled for only a year. Caldwell then worked, being a football player, being a bodyguard and selling "bad" real estate.

After two more enrollments at college, Caldwell went to work for the Atlanta Journal, leaving in 1925, after a year, then moving to Maine, staying for five years, producing a story that won a Yale Review award for fiction, and two novels of the Georgia poor.

His first published works were The Bastard (1929) and Poor Fool (1930) but the works for which he is most famous are his novels Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933). His first book, The Bastard, was banned and copies of it were seized by authorities. With the publication of God's Little Acre, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice instigated legal action against him, for The Bastard. Caldwell was arrested at a book-signing there but was exonerated in court.

In 1941, Caldwell reported from the USSR, for Life magazine, CBS radio and the newspaper PM. He wrote movie scripts for about five years. Caldwell wrote articles from Mexico and Czechoslovakia for the North American Newspaper Alliance.

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