Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity and the controversy that his books generated. These collected interviews include what is apparently his first, given in 1929 before the publication of The Bastard, to one of the very last, given only weeks before his death in April 1987.
Caldwell was a lifelong outspoken opponent of censorship and an early advocate of racial equality. His ideas were reflected in a number of important interviews and portraits, often in newspapers or...
Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrit...
Portraying a region steeped religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, "Deep South" is a product both of Erskine Caldwell the storyteller and Erskine Caldwell the minister's son.
Reverend Ira Sylvester Caldwell's missionary work took him and his family deep into the region commonly referred to as the Bible Belt. His son, Erskine, was at his side on innumerable home visits with the elderly, sick, and poor of Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Virginia, and Florida. By the time the younger Caldwell left home at seventeen, he had also witnessed such varieties of religious experience...
Portraying a region steeped religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, "Deep South" is a product both of Erskine Caldwell the storyteller an...
I'm just an ordinary writer, Erskine Caldwell once wrote. I'm not trying to sell anything; I'm not trying to buy anything. I'm just trying to present my vision of life. His ostensibly unsolicitous vision of Southern grotesques, of the slack-jawed, pellagra-ridden sharecroppers, repressed farmwives, and oversexed nymphets, elicited, however, anything but an ordinary response. Hailed by the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Maxwell Perkins, reviled by others as a pornographer or sensationalist, Caldwell was once called America's most popular author. Once the furor flagged, Caldwell was relegated...
I'm just an ordinary writer, Erskine Caldwell once wrote. I'm not trying to sell anything; I'm not trying to buy anything. I'm just trying to present ...