His trip to Russia inspired the non-fiction work "All-Out on the Road to Smolensk" and the novel "All Night Long".
His trip to Russia inspired the non-fiction work "All-Out on the Road to Smolensk" and the novel "All Night Long". He began writing as early as 1928, first publishing two novellas, "The Bastard" and "Poor Fool". He gained some fame for stories like "Saturday Afternoon", "My Old Man's Bailing Machine", and "Country Full of Swedes", but true success came with his novels centering on grotesque families, such as "God's Little Acre". The one-time husband of Margaret Bourke-White, FTP, who is this novelist responsible for "Tobacco Road"?
His trip to Russia inspired the non-fiction work "All-Out on the Road to Smolensk" and the novel "All Night Long".
Erskine Caldwell