Erskine Caldwell

In 1965, more than five decades after a forced estrangement from his black boyhood friend Bisco, Erskine Caldwell set out across the South find him. On the journey, which took him from South Carolina to Arkansas, Caldwell spoke to many people on the pretense of asking Bisco's whereabouts: a black college professor in Atlanta, Georgia; a white real estate salesman in Demopolis, Alabama; a black sharecropper in the Yazoo Basin of the Mississippi Delta; a transplanted white New England housewife in Bastrop, Louisiana, and others. Eighteen of those conversations, with Caldwell's commentary make up this book.

Emma Wheaton has interrupted her successful stage career to attend to her dying father—the legedary screen actor David Wheaton. As the master performer grapples with an obsession over the one great role that has eluded him—that of the biblical King David—Emma confronts both the painful and healing memories of her tumultuous past. The stories of these two Davids and the women in their lives are simultaneously woven together and unraveled in a narrative rich in theatrical tradition and archetypal wisdom. In Certain Women, Madeleine L’Engle gives us an unforgettable portrait of the private struggles and blessings of family life. (A stand-alone novel.)

"Through the summer twilight in the Depression-era South, word begins to circulate of a black man accosting a white woman. In no time the awful forces of public opinion and expediency goad the separate fears and frustrations of a small southern community into the single-mindedness of a mob."--BOOK JACKET. "Erskine Caldwell shows the lynching of Sonny Clark through many eyes. Caldwell reserves some of his most powerful passages for the few who truly held Clark's life in their hands but let it go: people like Sheriff Jeff McCurtain, who did nothing to disperse the mob; Harvey Glenn, who found Clark hiding and turned him in; and Katy Barlow, who withdrew her false charge of rape only after Clark was dead."--BOOK JACKET.

Suite des Mémoires de l'auteur, parus sous le titre français ... ##Mais l'art est difficile## (Gallimard, 1955). Une suite plutôt décevante, puisque Caldwell ne met "aucune bonne volonté d'écrivain à passer en revue ses agendas et sa mémoire. A énumérer ses femmes, ses traducteurs, ses agents, ses contrats et ses voyages" (Nicole Zand, ##Le Monde##, 24 octobre 1986, p. 35). Dans ##Le Figaro littéraire## du 10 nov. 1986, p. IX, Michel Mohrt trouve qu'il y a "d'étranges silences dans cette biographie."

In this appealing collection of fourteen interrelated stories, twelve-year-old William Stroup recounts the ludicrous predicaments and often self-imposed hardships his family endures. Playing on the tension between his hardworking, sensible mother and his disarmingly likable but shiftless and philandering father, William tells of Pa's flirtation with a widow, his swapping match with a band of gypsies, his battle of wits with a traveling silk-tie saleswoman, and his get-rich-quick schemes based on selling Ma's old love letters and collecting scrap iron.

Contents The girls in their summer dresses by Irwin Shaw Over the river and through the wood by John O'Hara The secret life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber The net by Robert M. Coates Home atmosphere by Sally Benson A toast to Captain Jerk by Russell Maloney Kroy Wen by Kay Boyle Nice girl by Sherwood Anderson HYMAN KAPLA*N, samaritan by Leonard Q. Ross Prelude to reunion by Oliver La Farge A small day by Erskine Caldwell Midsummer by Nancy Hale The door by E.B. White Tourist home by Benedict Thielen Arrangement in black and white by Dorothy Parker The courtship of Milton Barker by Wolcott Gibbs Homecoming by William Maxwell Only the dead know Brooklyn by Thomas Wolfe The works by Nathan Asch Do you like it here? by John O'Hara Conversation piece by Louise Bogan The fury by Robert M. Coates Venetian perspective by Janet Flanner Ping-pong by St. Clair McKelway The three veterans by Leane Zugsmith Wet Saturday by John Collier Soldiers of the republic by Dorothy Parker Houseparty by Walter Bernstein All the years of her life by Morley Callaghan The explorers by Jerome Weidman The old lady by Thyra Samter Winslow A matter of pride by Christopher La Farge Love in the snow by Joel Sayre. Profession : housewife by Sally Benson The great manta by Edwin Corle My sister Frances by Emily Hahn Accident near Charlottesburg by William A. Krauss In honor of their daughter by John Mosher The test by Angelica Gibbs Goodbye, Shirley Temple by Joseph Mitchell Honors and awards by James Reid Parker Pastoral at Mr. Piper's by Mollie Panter-Downes Man and woman by Erskine Caldwell Main currents of American thought by Irwin Shaw The knife by Brendan Gill The pelican's shadow by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Incident on a street corner by Albert Maltz Such a pretty day by Dawn Powell Portrait of ladies by Mark Shorer Parochial school by Paul Horgan I am waiting by Christopher Isherwood A letter from the Bronx by Arthur Kober Little woman by Sally Benson The apostate by George Milburn Sailor off the Bremen by Irwin Shaw Barmecide's feast by Marc Connelly Fish story by Donald Moffat I've got an anchor on my chest by R.H. Newman The happiest days by John Cheever Black boy by Kay Boyle The nice Judge Trowbridge by Richard Lockridge Love in Brooklyn by Daniel Fuchs The great-grandmother by Nancy Hale Chutzbah by Jerome Weidman Mr. Palmer's party by Tess Slesinger A different world by Robert M. Coates Are we leaving tomorrow? by John O'Hara The getaway by Dorothy Thomas.

20 of the best American plays from 1930-1939.

Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White have combined their considerable talents to produce an incisive, sensitive statement about the relation between the poverty of the people and the depletion of the land in the Deep South. In a powerful and informal style, Erskine Caldwell explores the reasons behind the deterioration of what was once the land where cotton was king. And Margaret Bourke-White's superb photographs capture the essence of the day-to-day existence of the people in this land, which no words, however eloquent, can convey. - Back cover.

Alan Kent is a wanderer, a seeker. Driven by, or fleeing from, unnamed forces, he struggles against the hardening effects of a brutal and indifferent world. In a series of episodes, Erskine Caldwell tells the semiautobiographical story of Kent's childhood, roving early manhood, and transformation into an artist. The episodes, which range from brief, graphic sketches to one-sentence impressions, are filled with elemental images of light and darkness, blood and water, earth and sky.