Primary Works

Poor Fool, 1930; Tobacco Road, 1932; God's Little Acre, 1933; Journeyman, 1935; Trouble in July, 1940; The Sacrilege of Alan Kent, 1936; North of the Danube, with Margaret Bourke-White,1939; Say! Is This the U. S. A.? with Margaret Bourke-White, 1941. Georgia Boy, 1943; Tragic Ground, 1944; The Sure Hand of God, 1947; Deep South, 1968; With All My Might: An Autobiography, 1987.

You have seen their faces. by Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White. NY: Modern Age Books, Inc. 1937. Folio HD207 .C3

Trouble in July. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. PS3505.A322 .T7

22 Great modern short stories from Jackpot. NY: Avon Book Company, 1944. PS3505 .A322 T9

Call it experience; the years of learning how to write. 1951. PS3505.A322 Z53

The courting of Susie Brown. NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1952. PS3505.A322 C6

"The Art, Craft, and Personality of Writing." Texas Quarterly 7.1 (1964): 37-43.

In search of Bisco. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. E185.61 .C2

Writing in America. NY: Phaedra Publishers, 1967. PN145 .C28

Summertime Island. NY: World Pub. Co., 1968. PS3505 A322 S77

The weather shelter. NY: World Pub. Co., 1969. PS3505.A322 W45

Tobacco road. NY: New American Library, 1987, 1962. PS3505 .A322 T6

"A Night in November/Beverly Hills, California." Georgia Review 36.1 (Sprg 1982): 102-11.

Erskine Caldwell: Selected Letters, 1929-1955. McDonald, Robert L. (ed.). Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999.

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

Allred, Jeff. American Modernism and Depression Documentary. NY: Oxford UP, 2009.

Arnold, Edwin T. Conversations with Erskine Caldwell. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1988.

- - -. ed. Erskine Caldwell Reconsidered. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1990.

Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr. "Marginalization and Mobility: Segregation and Representation of Southern Poor Whites." in Godden, Richard, and Martin Crawford. eds. Reading Southern Poverty Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2006.

Cook, Sylvia J. Erskine Caldwell and the Fiction of Poverty: The Flesh and the Spirit. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1991.

Cook, Sylvia J. "Camp Meetings, Comedy, and Erskine Caldwell: From the Preposterous to the Absurd." in Piacentino, Ed. ed. The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2006.

Devlin, James E. Erskine Caldwell. Boston: Twayne, 1984. PS3505 .A322 Z56

Gray, R. J. "Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration." in Inge, M. Thomas, an Edward Piacentino. eds. The Humor of the Old South. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2001.

Holmes, Sarah C. "Re-Examining the Political Left: Erskine Caldwell and the Doctrine of Eugenics." in Cuddy, Lois A. and Roche, Claire M. eds. Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complexity. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2003.

Klevar, Harvey L. Erskine Caldwell: A Biography. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1993.

McDonald, Robert L. ed. The Critical Response to Erskine Caldwell. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.

- - -. ed. Reading Erskine Caldwell: New Essays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.

MacDonald, Scott. ed. Critical Essays on Erskine Caldwell. Boston: Hall, 1981. PS3505.A322 Z54

Mixon, Wayne. The People's Writer: Erskine Caldwell and the South. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1995.

Rieger, Christopher. Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2009.

Vials, Chris. Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U. S. Culture, 1935-1947. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2009.

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