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Screenwriter, Book Author, Play Author Born: December 17, 1903 in White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia Death: April 10, 1987 in Paradise Valley, CA Biography:Few writers were more respected and maligned in their own time than Erskine Caldwell. Renowned as the author of Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, both of which were among the early huge sellers in the new and burgeoning field of paperback books in the 1940s, he was also reviled in many circles for those same books and their risqué content. Born a minister's son in the Deep South, Caldwell was regarded in academic circles as a master chronicler of his home region, and by many in his home region as a traitor for his honest, unromanticized accounts of the poor in that region. The son of the Rev. Ira Sylvester Caldwell and the former Caroline Bell, Erskine Preston Caldwell was born in White Oak, Coweta County, GA, in 1903. His father's preaching and the family's moves to various congregations over the first decade and a half of his life gave him a unique opportunity to observe people of all kinds (though... Full Biography
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