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Erskine Caldwell Reflects On Life Of a Humble Writer Of Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell at 73 discusses his career from newspaper work to writing full time. He recalls moving across the South with his family, living in Maine and Florida, and serving as a World War II war correspondent in Russia. His breakthrough Tobacco Road fueled his livelihood, and he notes censor fights over God’s Little Acre and other works.
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