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CALDWELL, ERSKINE The Complete Stories of Erskine Caldwell
Signet / New American Library, 1955. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Spine & back cover corner creased, pages toned. 544 pages. CONTENTS: After-Image; August Afternoon; The Automobile That Wouldn't Run; An Autumn Courtship; Back on the Road; Balm of Gilead; Big Buck; Blue Boy; Candy-Man Beechum; Carnival; The Cold Winter; The Corduroy Pants; Country Full of Swedes; The Courting of Susie Brown; Crown-Fire; Daughter; The Day the Presidential Candidate Came to Ciudad Tamaulipas; A Day's Wooing; Dorothy; The Dream; The Empty Room; The End of Christy Tucker; Evelyn and the Rest of Us; An Evening in Nuevo Leon; The First Autumn; The Fly in the Coffin; The Girl Ellen; The Grass Fire; The Growing Season; Hamrick's Polar Bear; Handy; Here and Today; Honeymoon; Horse Thief; Indian Summer; It Happened Like This; Joe Craddock's Old Woman; John the Indian and George Hopkins; Kneel to the Rising Sun; A Knife to Cut the Corn Bread With; The Lonely Day; Mamma's Little Girl; Man and Woman; The Man Who Looked Like Himself; Martha Jean; Masses of Men; The Mating of Marjorie; Maud Island; Meddlesome Jack; The Medicine Man; Memorandum; Midsummer Passion; The Midwinter Guest; Molly Cotton-Tail; The Negro in the Well; New Cabin; Nine Dollars' Worth of Mumble; Over the Green Mountains; The People v. Abe Lathan, Colored; The People's Choice; Picking Cotton; The Picture; Priming the Well; Rachel; Return to Lavinia; The Rumor; Runaway; Saturday Afternoon; Savannah River Payday; The Shooting; The Sick Horse; Slow Death; A Small Day; Snacker; Squire Dinwiddy; The Strawberry Season; Summer Accident; The Sunfield; A Swell-Looking Girl; Ten Thousand Blueberry Crates; Thunderstorm; Uncle Henry's Love Nest; Uncle Jeff; A Very Late Spring; The Visitor; The Walnut Hunt; Warm River; We Are Looking at You, Agnes; Where the Girls Were Different; Wild Flowers; The Windfall; A Woman in the House; Yellow Girl. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903, Coweta County, Georgia – April 11, 1987) was an American author. Caldwell was born in a house in the woods outside Moreland, Georgia, the son of a minister in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. His early childhood was spent moving from state to state across the South, as his father found a position in one church after another. Later, he attended, but did not graduate from, Erskine College. He was athletic, played football, stood six feet tall, and has been described by one of his publishers to have an unusually kind face and otherwise angelic appearance. His political sympathies lay with blue collar workers, and as he went from job to job in his younger days, drew on his experiences with common workers to write books that extolled the simple life of those less fortunate than he was. Later in life, he gave seminars on low income tenant-sharecroppers in the American South. His first and second published works were 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). When his first book came out, it was banned (perhaps on the basis of the title alone, as bastard can be taken for an epithet), and copies were seized by authorities. Later, on the publication of God's Little Acre, authorities went even further and, at the instigation of the New York Literary Society (apparently incensed at Caldwell's choice of titles), arrested Caldwell and seized his copies when he went to New York for a book-signing event. A full trial exonerated Caldwell completely, and he counter-sued for false arrest and malicious prosecution. Through the 1930s, Caldwell and his wife ran a bookstore in Maine. Caldwell was married to photographer Margaret Bourke-White from 1939 to 1942, and they collaborated on You Have Seen Their Faces (1937). At the height of World War II, Caldwell obtained papers from the USSR that allowed him to travel to Ukraine and work as a foreign correspondent documenting the war effort there. Disillusionment with the stifling intrigues of the Stalinist regime led him to pen a four page short story, 'Message for Genevieve,' published on returning to the United States in 1944. In this story, a woman journalist is executed by a firing squad after being tried in a secret court on charges of espionage. After he came back from World War II, Caldwell took up residence in San Francisco. His ex-wife kept the bookstore in Maine as a property settlement. During the last twenty years of his life, he got into the habit of traveling around the world for six months out of each year, and he took with him numerous notebooks to jot down his ideas on. Many of these notebooks were not published, but became part of his legacy upon his death, and can be examined in a museum dedicated to him. The house he was born in was moved from its initial site and preserved, and was made into a museum closer to town. Caldwell, a heavy smoker, died from complications of emphysema and lung cancer on April 11, 1987, aged 83. He is interred in Scenic Hills Memorial Park, Ashland, Oregon." -- Wikipedia.
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