[DOC] [TLE] The Truth Behind `Tobacco Road` Fiction - tribunedigital ... [PAR] Apr 26, 1987 ... When Hollywood made a movie of Erskine Caldwell`s ``Tobacco ... As a boy he 
had visited them in their sharecropper shacks on trips in the Georgia countryside 
with two ... But Sister Rouse did buy a car for a husband less than half her age, 
announcing that God had told her to ... Find More Stories About. [DOC] [TLE] Tobacco Road (novel) - Wikipedia [PAR] Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers
. It was dramatized for Broadway by Jack Kirkland in 1933, and ran for eight years
, an astounding feat for a non-musical, and remains the second-longest running 
play in Broadway history. ... Jeeter has lived on the same plot of land since he 
was born, and even... [DOC] [TLE] Erskine Caldwell - Wikipedia [PAR] Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903  April 11, 1987) was an 
American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his 
native Southern United States in novels such as Tobacco Road and God's Little 
Acre won him critical acclaim, ... Caldwell wrote 25 novels, 150 short stories, 
twelve nonfiction collections, two... [DOC] [TLE] Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell  Reviews, Discussion ... [PAR] It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most 
of ..... Quote from Slate critic Dwight Garner: "Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road is 
a .... They live in rural Georgia during the height of the Great Depression and ..... 
Tobacco Road tells the Lesters' story, which fulfills almost all the criteria of a... [DOC] [TLE] On the Southern Literary Trail - More Authors: Erskine Caldwell ... [PAR] Caldwell's first piece, "The Georgia Cracker" was published when Caldwell was 
twenty-three. Publishers went out on a limb to bring out Tobacco Road in 1932 to 
critical acclaim, but ... Critics contend that the title story is Caldwell's greatest work
. ..... And like your Dad, my Dad just told us the facts without bitterness. Well, he... [DOC] [TLE] Erskine Caldwell | American writer | Britannica.com [PAR] American author whose unadorned novels and stories about the rural poor of the 
American ... and dialect of the impoverished sharecroppers that his father 
ministered to. ... Caldwell's reputation as a novelist largely rests on Tobacco 
Road and on ... the episodic narrative Georgia Boy (1943), a well-told story of 
boyhood; the... [DOC] [TLE] Saturday Afternoon [PAR] From The Complete Stories of Erskine Caldwell, 1941- Published in American 
Earth, 1931-. Erskine Caldwell (1903- ) was born in Georgia and in his early 
years had ... His first success came with Tobacco Road (1932) which was 
dramatized and ... the case of degraded sharecroppers such as the Jeter Lester 
of this book. [DOC] [TLE] Spying on Southerners: The FBI and Erskine Caldwell - JStor [PAR] Road (1932), God9 s Little Acre (1933), and The Journeyman (1935) in 
collections of ... Harwell, "Erskine Caldwell: Georgia Cracker World-Class," 
Atlanta Historical Journal. (Winter 1982-83): ... starved, and degenerate 
characters in Caldwell's stories, others ..... And finally, some "unknown outside 
source" told the FBI that. [DOC] [TLE] Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell - Google Books [PAR] It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most 
of ... surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. [DOC] [TLE] UGA Reader's Guides - University of Georgia Press [PAR] It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most 
of ... In the biography Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road, author 
Dan ... Repeatedly Jeeter is told to move to the city to work in the mills to support
... [DOC] [TLE] FOR ERSKINE CALDWELL, 50 YEARS OF SUCCESSES - NYTimes ... [PAR] Dec 1, 1982 ... FIFTY years ago they emerged from the backwoods of Georgia, shiftless and ... 
For they are characters from '

Question: Erskine Caldwell told the story of a Georgia sharecropper in this "Road" story
Answer: Tobacco Road