The author, famous for his earthy southern romances and current top
seller in pocketbooks, here writes a somewhat disappointing
biography whose coverage is nothing much more than his professional
life. He touches briefly on his early years in Southern towns, his
minister father, his sketchy, interrupted schooling, and his first
odd jobs. Wangling a reporting job on the local paper to indulge
his desire to write, he moved on to The Atlanta Journal; he
travelled through the rural areas of the Southeastern states where
the misery of the tobacco readers provided essential material; he
instituted a long program of writing short stories- none of which
sold. Breaking into the "little" magazines, his work caught the
late Maxwell Perkins' eye and the old Scribner's carried several of
his stories, then came a contract and his first published book.
Although his early books received a preponderance of adverse
critical notice, he was increasingly successful, and of later years
he records the many places he has lived and written in; he tells of
his marriage to Margaret Bourke-White, with whom he collaborated
and made a bally-hooed trip to Russia during the German invasion.
Sales value on the author's name but not as complete a biography as
his readers might wish for. (Kirkus Reviews)
This memoir presents a self-portrait of Esrkine Caldwell's first 30
years as a writer, with special emphasis on his long and hard
apprenticeship before he emerged as one of the most widely read and
controversial writers of his time. All the while conveying the
enormous amount of drive and dedication with which he pursued the
writer's life, Caldwell tells of his struggles to find his own
voice, his travels and his various jobs, which ranged from
back-breaking common labour to much sought-after positions in
radio, film and journalism. Such literary personages as Nathanael
West, Maxwell Perkins and Margaret Mitchell appear in the book, as
does Margaret Bourke-White, with whom he collaborated on a number
of projects and whom he also married. Including a self-interview,
it offers insights into Caldwell's imagination, his sources of
inspiration and his writing habits, as well as his views on critics
and reviewers, publishers and booksellers.
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