Today is the centennial of Erskine Caldwell’s birth and the New York Times has a profile of the author.
“I knew what I wanted to write and what I wanted to write about,” he once recalled. “I wanted to write about the people I knew as they really lived, moved, and talked.”
Using Maine as his base, Caldwell began what became the lifelong habit of writing a story a week. Unlike most aspiring novelists of the Jazz Age, Caldwell was unafraid to bring crude sexuality and barnyard humor into his fiction.
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Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.