Unruly ghost: Erskine Caldwell at 100.

From: The Southern Review | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

THE YEAR 2003 MARKS THE CENTENNIAL Of Erskine Caldwell's birth, but it's unlikely that there will be much celebration. Although Caldwell lived to be eighty-three and was publishing until the very end, many critics considered him to be a relic of the 1930s and '40s, an oddity at best, an embarrassment at worst, whose career as a serious writer collapsed after his work "grew towards trash," as Faulkner put it. Caldwell's novels, infamous best sellers in their day, and his short stories, lesser known, are little read now, some fifteen years after his death, and are rarely taught in ...

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