He created Bessie Rice, who spends nearly all her money on a useless Ford, as well as the gold-obsessed Ty Ty Walden.
In one of this author's novels, Rosamund finds her husband in bed with Darling Jill and proceeds to beat both their naked bodies with a hairbrush. In that novel, Will Thompson tears Griselda's clothes apart and makes her his the night before he is killed during a sit-in at a mill. In another of his novels, Lov loses a bag of (*) turnips after being raped by his sister-in-law, Ellie May. He created Bessie Rice, who spends nearly all her money on a useless Ford, as well as the gold-obsessed Ty Ty Walden. This man described a shift of the wind that causes a fire on the sedge to burn down the land of Jeeter Lester in his most famous novel. For 10 points, name this author, who wrote about poor, white sharecroppers in such novels as God's Little Acre and Tobacco Road.
In one of this author's novels, Rosamund finds her husband in bed with Darling Jill and proceeds to beat both their naked bodies with a hairbrush.
Erskine Caldwell