Erskine Caldwell

Table of Contents

Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Images

Read Next

Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Britannica's Book Bingo. Take our reading challenge! Books range form greatest, banned, and counterculture.

Britannica’s Book Bingo

Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales.

10 Captivating Contemporary Novels Set in the British Isles

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

Girl Reading On Turquoise Couch

9 American Countercultural Books

Discover

Thanksgiving Celebration Traditional Dinner Setting Food Concept

Why Is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Celebrated on a Thursday?

Woman tied to a ducking stool, a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. (cucking stool)

8 Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Women Throughout History

Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000

14 Tough Questions Answered

Erskine Caldwell: Facts & Related Content

Written and fact-checked by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born	December 17, 1903 • Georgia
Died	April 11, 1987 (aged 83) • Paradise Valley • Arizona
Notable Works	“Georgia Boy ” • “God’s Little Acre” • “In Search of Bisco” • “Tobacco Road” • “Trouble in July”
Notable Family Members	spouse Margaret Bourke-White

Photos

See All Images →

William Saroyan.

William Saroyan

American author

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

American author

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

American writer

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

American author

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

American writer

H.D.

H.D.

American poet

McCullers, Carson

Carson McCullers

American author

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

American playwright

Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

American writer

Anita Loos

Anita Loos

American author

Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood

British-American author

William Styron

William Styron

American author

Joan Didion

Joan Didion

American author

Schulberg, Budd

Budd Schulberg

American screenwriter, novelist, and journalist

Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo

American poet and author

Connelly, Marc

Marc Connelly

American playwright

Marya Mannes

American author and critic

Anna Cora Mowatt, engraving from a daguerreotype.

Anna Cora Mowatt

American writer

Ben Hecht

American writer

Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange

American author

Quiz

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.

American Writers Quiz