Question: Are Erskine Caldwell and Richard Ford both American novelists?
Context: Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer.  His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States in novels such as "Tobacco Road" (1932) and "God's Little Acre" (1933) won him critical acclaim, but also made him controversial among Southerners of the time who felt he was deprecating the people of the region. Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer.  His best-known works are the novel "The Sportswriter" and its sequels, "Independence Day", "The Lay of the Land" and "Let Me Be Frank With You", and the short story collection "Rock Springs", which contains several widely anthologized stories. Kneel to the Rising Sun is a collection of short stories by Erskine Caldwell first published in 1935.  The seventeen stories, only a few pages each, all deal with various tragedies occurring in the early twentieth century American South, chiefly caused by poverty or racism.  Caldwell is most well known for his novels, such as "Tobacco Road"; however, "Kneel to the Rising Sun" is held in high acclaim by his critics. "The Medicine Man" is a humorous short story by Erskine Caldwell.  It was included in "We Are the Living" (1933).  It was also included in the "Stories of Erskine Caldwell", a collection of 96 stories first published in 1953 and re-issued in 1996 by the University of Georgia Press. . The American Folkways is a 28-volume series of books, initiated and principally edited by Erskine Caldwell, and published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce from 1941 to 1955.  Each book focused on a different region, or "folkway", of the United States, including documentary essays and folklore from that region.  The books were written by local experts, describing "their" region.  Many of the individual volumes have become regarded as classics in folklore, local history, and American writing, and a number of them have been issued in multiple editions or are still in print. God's Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell about a dysfunctional farming family in Georgia obsessed with sex and wealth.  The novel's sexual themes were so controversial that the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice asked a New York state court to censor it.  The novel was made into a film of the same name in 1958.  Though controversial, the novel became an international best seller with over 10 million copies sold.  "God's Little Acre" is Caldwell's most popular novel, though his reputation is often tied to "Tobacco Road (novel)" which was listed in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels. 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.  A 1941 film version, deliberately played mainly for laughs, was directed by John Ford, and the storyline was considerably altered.  The novel itself was included in "Life" magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924–1944. Tobacco Road is a 1941 film directed by John Ford starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy Dana Andrews and Ward Bond.  It was based on the novel of the same name by Erskine Caldwell, but the plot was rewritten for the film. You Have Seen Their Faces is a book by photographer Margaret Bourke-White and novelist Erskine Caldwell.  It was first published in 1937 by Viking Press, with a paperback version by Modern Age Books following quickly.  Bourke-White and Caldwell married in 1939. God's Little Acre is a 1958 American film of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel of the same name.  It was directed by Anthony Mann and shot in black and white by cinematographer Ernest Haller.  Although the film was not released until August 1958, its production schedule is indicated as September 11 to late October 1957.
Answer: yes