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Erskine Caldwell - Selected Letters, 1929-1955 (Paperback)
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Erskine Caldwell - Selected Letters, 1929-1955 (Paperback)
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I'm just an ordinary writer, Erskine Caldwell once wrote. ""I'm not
trying to sell anything; I'm not trying to buy anything. I'm just
trying to present my vision of life."" His ostensibly unsolicitous
vision of Southern grotesques, of the slack-jawed, pellagra-ridden
sharecroppers, repressed farmwives, and over sexed nymphets,
elicited, however, anything but an ""ordinary"" response. Hailed by
the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Maxwell Perkins, reviled by
others as a pornographer or sensationalist, Caldwell was once
called ""America's most popular author."" Once the furore flagged,
Caldwell was relegated to the ""mansions of subliterature,"" where
his reputation resides today. This book contains more than 150
previously unpublished letters, notes, telegrams, and postcards
written between 1929 and 1955, at the peak of Caldwell's popularity
and influence, all extensively annotated. The Introduction assays
Caldwell's significance in American popular culture and literary
studies and establishes the importance of Caldwell's correspondence
as a means of understanding the intentions of a man who was
otherwise terse and unforthcoming about his work.
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