Erskine Caldwell

Robert L. McDonald is associate dean for academic affairs and professor of English at Virginia Military Institute. He has written numerous essays on Southern literature and art and edited two other books on Caldwell. A past president of the Popular/American Culture Association in the South, he lives in Lexington, Virginia.

“provides an extensive annotation to the over 150 letters, notes, telegrams, and postcards written between 1929 and 1955.... These annotations are one of the best features of the collection in that they give a depth of understanding...edited with both professional concern and honest admiration for Caldwell and his work. It is certainly a collection that ought to be in every college and university library”—Popular Culture Association; “the letters...shed light on a creative writer operating in the southern USA during the years 1929–1955”—Reference Reviews; “a valuable scholarly book...an engagingly good read...a coherent and absorbing narrative”—Mississippi Review; “includes more than one hundred and fifty previously unpublished letters, notes and postcards written between 1929 and 1955”—American Literature.

• Table of ContentsEditor’s Acknowledgments      Preface      Introduction       Chronology       The Letters       Index