![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreland, Ga., in Coweta County, moved the house where he was born to the town square and turned it into a museum filled with Caldwell's books and personal belongings. But in Augusta, the famous novel's setting and the region that inspired his most significant works, there's nothing honoring or commemorating him even 75 years after the book was published.That's because the book, hailed as a protest of the capitalistic and political systems during the Great Depression, made Tobacco Road synonymous with rural squalor.Caldwell wrote "Southern gothic" books that sold over 80 million copies in 43 languages.Since he died in 1987, the University of Georgia Press reissued 11 of his works. Erskine Caldwell's "Tobacco Road" is considered an American classic. ![]()
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