Erskine Caldwell, American novelist and short story writer (died 1987)

Erskine Caldwell

Southern-American novelist (1903–1987)

Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American novelist and short story writer. 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.