| 词条 | Erskine Caldwell |
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| name = Erskine Caldwell | image = Erskine Caldwell 1975.jpg | caption = Erskine Caldwell in 1975 | birth_name = Erskine Preston Caldwell | birth_date = December 17, 1903 | death_date = {{Death date and age|1987|4|11|1903|12|17}} | birth_place = Moreland, Georgia, U.S. | death_place = Paradise Valley, Arizona, U.S. | resting_place = Scenic Hills Memorial Park, Ashland, Oregon | occupation = Novelist, short story writer | notableworks = Tobacco Road God's Little Acre}}Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer.[1][2] 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 his advocacy of eugenics and the sterilization of Georgia's poor whites became less popular following World War II.[3] Early yearsCaldwell was born on December 17, 1903, in the small town of White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia. He was the only child of Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church minister Ira Sylvester Caldwell and his wife Caroline Preston (née Bell) Caldwell, a schoolteacher. Rev. Caldwell's ministry required moving the family often, to places including Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina. When he was 15 years old, his family settled in Wrens, Georgia.[4] His mother Caroline was from Virginia. Her ancestry included English nobility which held large land grants in eastern Virginia. Both her English ancestors and Scots-Irish ancestors fought in the American Revolution. Ira Caldwell's ancestors were Scots-Irish and had also been in America since before the revolution and had fought in it.[5] Caldwell attended but did not graduate from Erskine College, a Presbyterian school in nearby South Carolina. His political sympathies were with the working classes, and he used his experiences with farmers and common workers to write stories portraying their lives and struggles. Later in life he presented public seminars on the typical conditions of tenant-sharecroppers in the South.[4] His first published works were The Bastard (1929) and Poor Fool (1930) but the works for which he is most famous are his novels Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933). His first book, The Bastard, was banned and copies of it were seized by authorities. With the publication of God's Little Acre, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice instigated legal action against him. Caldwell was arrested at a book-signing there but was exonerated in court.[6] Disillusionment with the government led Caldwell to compose a short story published in 1933, "Sylvia". In this story a woman journalist is executed by a firing squad after being tried in a secret court on charges of espionage. Through the 1930s Caldwell and his first wife Helen managed a bookstore in Maine. Following their divorce Caldwell married photographer Margaret Bourke-White, collaborating with her on three photo-documentaries: You Have Seen Their Faces (1937), North of the Danube (1939), and Say, Is This The USA (1941).[7] During World War II, Caldwell obtained a visa from the USSR that allowed him to travel to Ukraine and work as a foreign correspondent, documenting the war effort there.[8] Later yearsAfter he returned from World War II, Caldwell took up residence in Connecticut, then in Arizona with third wife, June, then in San Francisco. During the last twenty years of his life, his routine was to travel the world for six months of each year, taking with him notebooks in which to jot down his ideas. Many of these notebooks were not published, but can be examined in a museum dedicated to him in the town square of Moreland, Georgia, where the home in which he was born was relocated and dedicated to his memory. Caldwell died from complications of emphysema and lung cancer on April 11, 1987, in Paradise Valley, Arizona. He is buried in Scenic Hills Memorial Park, Ashland, Oregon.[9] Although he never lived there, his stepson and fourth wife, Virginia Caldwell Hibbs,[10][11] did, and wished him to be buried near his family.[12] Virginia died in December 2017 aged 98. BibliographyCaldwell wrote 25 novels, 150 short stories, twelve nonfiction collections, two autobiographies, and two books for young readers.[13] He also edited the influential American Folkways series, a 28-volume series of books about different regions of the United States.[14]
Notes1. ^Obituary The New York Times, April 13, 1987. 2. ^Obituary Variety, April 15, 1987. 3. ^{{cite web |last1=Keely |first1=Karen A. |title=Poverty, Sterilization, and Eugenics in Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/poverty-sterilization-and-eugenics-in-erskine-caldwells-tobacco-road/6042C8E284C2907F72889D323BEF5EDF |website=Journal of American Studies |publisher=Journal of American Studies |accessdate=3 December 2018 |pages=23–42 |language=en |doi=10.1017/S002187580200676X |date=2002}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|title=Erskine Caldwell|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?path=/Literature/Fiction/Authors&id=h-497|publisher=New Georgia Encyclopedia|accessdate=October 21, 2012}} 5. ^The People's Writer: Erskine Caldwell and the South By Wayne Mixon pages 5–6 6. ^{{cite news|title=Sumner Defeated in Fight on a Book: Magistrate Greenspan Finds Novel by Erskine Caldwell Is Not Obscene|date=May 24, 1933|work=The New York Times|page=19|id=ProQuest ID 100709788}} 7. ^Erskine Caldwell, Margaret Bourke-White, and the Popular Front: Photojournalism in Russia By Jay E. Caldwell pages xi and 268 8. ^Erskine Caldwell, Margaret Bourke-White, and the Popular Front: Photojournalism in Russia By Jay E. Caldwell pages 15-21 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=39403|title=Scenic Hills Memorial Park|publisher=Find A Grave|accessdate=September 29, 2011}} 10. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/17/books/he-loved-the-south-but-painted-its-evils-in-words.html "He loved the South but painted its evils in words"], nytimes.com, December 17, 2003. 11. ^Profile {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109025712/http://www.times-herald.com/printerFriendly/20120729-hibbs-painting-MOS |date=January 9, 2015 }}, times-herald.com; accessed June 28, 2015. 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ijpr.org/Feature.asp?FeatureID=1606|title=Novelist Erskine Caldwell's Ashes Rest in Ashland, Ore.|publisher=Jefferson Public Radio|accessdate=March 14, 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524154817/http://www.ijpr.org/Feature.asp?FeatureID=1606|archivedate=May 24, 2013|df=mdy-all}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.johnwade.com/biography.htm|title=Storyteller: A Life of Erskine Caldwell|publisher=Johnwade.com|accessdate=September 29, 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929144645/http://www.johnwade.com/biography.htm|archivedate=September 29, 2011|df=mdy-all}} 14. ^Firsts Magazine, v.8, n.5 (May 1988). Erskine Caldwell has also written 'The first Autumn' References
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