Erskine Caldwell: The Final Chapter; Seriously Ill at 83, The Author Clings Fiercely to a Lifetime's Convictions

From: The Washington Post | Date: March 1, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

. Erskine Caldwell has earned the right, at the age of 83, to dislike a few things.

One of them is social injustice, a theme to which he has clung in his books, most memorably in his best-known novels of the early 1930s, "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre." Another is "propaganda," a term Caldwell uses to shrug off everything from literary theory to public relations. Also on the list are editors, publishers, professors and autograph collectors.

Having made his own way in the world, he maintains an air of stubborn dignity, suffering the demands of literary achievement and human company ...

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