Erskine Caldwell
An American author.
Tobacco Road
Georgia sharecropper Jeeter Lester and sickly wife Ada have 3 kids. Jeeter’s widowed preacher sister Bessie Rice gets Jeeter’s son Dude to marry her by buying him a car, which he crashes, killing his grandmother. daughter Pearl married at 12 to railroad worker Lov Bensey, who then lives with other daughter Ellie May. Jeeter and Ada die in shack fire
God’s Little Acre
protagonist shifts location of acre on his farm dedicated to the church