tobacco road author by Erskine Caldwell 1932 Scribner's B Print HC Book DJ Tragic Ground Erskine Caldwell Author

At any rate, it seems that a straight line can be drawn from Caldwell to writers such as Harry Crews, who also attempted to combine tragedy and comedy in their novels

He meticulously painted the harsh realities of life in the American South during the Great Depression

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as a tragedy, it is an abject failure" and that the novel is "as indelible as a freak show or car crash." Dwight Garner on the "Slate" website called it "a greasy hairball of a novel....one of the sickest and most lurid books to have emerged from the literature of the American South." Both writers, however, proceed to give the novel a generally positive review

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He was most recognized for his paintings, pochoir stencil prints, French art deco illustrations, and engravings