Mayor of Casterbridge

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Erskine Caldwell was born in 1903 in White Oak, Georgia. Caldwell was the son

of a missionary who moved from church to church. He rarely lived longer than a year in

one place. While moving from place to place, Erskine acquired a deep knowledge of the

Southern sharecroppers. As a young man, Caldwell took odd jobs and worked in

southern states. The places he traveled to were the Deep South, Mexico, and parts of

Central America. At the age of seventeen, he enrolled at Erskine College in South

Carolina for a short time. However, Mr. Caldwell quickly transferred to the University of

Virginia on a scholarship. There he began to write short stories. Soon after this he

attended the University of Pennsylvania, but he eventually moved to Maine. While living

in Maine, in the 1920?s, Caldwell devoted his time to writing. He soon had three stories

accepted for publication. These stories included two of his most famous works which are

Tobacco Road and God?s Little Acre. These works shocked readers and were banned

from many libraries. However, many critics saw Caldwell as a literary realist who made

today?s society and life many years ago. It is not confusing, and it is a book that people

house of Jeeter Lester. Jeeter steals the man?s turnips and runs into the forest to eat

on the right foot, but she fails and falls in love with Jeeter?s son, Dude. Dude and the

Approximate Word count = 936
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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