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Caldwell, fumador empedernido, murió a causa de las complicaciones de un enfisema y cáncer de pulmón el 11 de abril de 1987, a los 83 años. Se encuentra enterrado en el Scenic Hills Memorial Park, en Oregón .
Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. [7] [8] 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.
Erskine Caldwell (Erskine Preston Caldwell; White Oak, 1903 - Paradise Valley, 1987) Escritor estadounidense cuya obra refleja con realismo las duras condiciones de vida de los negros y de los blancos pobres del sur de los Estados Unidos, marcadas por la pobreza, la violencia ambiental y la degradación moral.
El escritor estadounidense Erskine Caldwell nació en 1903 en Moreland (Georgia) y falleció en Paradise Valley (Arizona) en 1987, a los 83 años. Estudió en Erskine College, aunque no llegó a graduarse. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial trabajó como corresponsal en Ucrania.
7 de abr. de 2024 · Erskine Caldwell was an American author whose unadorned novels and stories about the rural poor of the American South mix violence and sex in grotesque tragicomedy. His works achieved a worldwide readership and were particularly esteemed in France and the Soviet Union.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Caldwell is not much read today, except for Tobacco Road, not least because the social realism he espoused is unfashionable. However, he had considerable success in his day and holds the distinction of being widely censored for his realistic approach to sex and violence.
10 de dic. de 2021 · Augusta native Tom Field is restoring an old home in Mount Vernon that was once home to author Erskine Caldwell. (Photo by Susan Cover of Spectrum News Maine) “I did not write this novel with obscenity, lewdness and immorality in mind,” he wrote.
