AKA Erskine Preston Caldwell

Born: 17-Dec-1903
Birthplace: Moreland, GA
Died: 11-Apr-1987
Location of death: Paradise Valley, AZ
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Scenic Hills Memorial Park, Ashland, OR

Gender: Male
Religion: Presbyterian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Tobacco Road

Father: Ira Sylvester Caldwell (Presbyterian minister, d. 1944)
Mother: Caroline Bell (teacher)
Wife: Helen Lannigan (m. 1925, div., one son, one daughter)
Son: Erskine Caldwell, Jr..
Daughter: Janet
Wife: Margaret Bourke-White (photographer, m. 1939, div. 1942)
Wife: June Johnson (m. 21-Dec-1942, div. circa 1954, one son)
Son: Jay
Wife: Virginia Fletcher (until his death)

    University: Erskine College
    University: University of Virginia (dropped out)

Author of books:
Tobacco Road (1932, novel)
God's Little Acre (1933, novel)
Journeyman (1935, novel)
Kneel to the Rising Sun (1935, short stories)
The Sacrilege of Alan Kent (1936, poetry, a single "prose poem")
You Have Seen Their Faces (1937, with Margaret Bourke-White)
Trouble in July (1940, novel)
Georgia Boy (1943, short stories)
Call It Experience (1951, memoir)
In Search of Bisco (1965)
Deep South (1968)
With All My Might (1987, memoir)

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