With All My Might: An Autobiography

by Erskine Caldwell

The celebrated novelist discusses his life and career, including his four marriages, his struggles to get his work accepted by a publisher, and the attempts to ban his work

Genres: Biography, Memoir, History

332 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1901

About the author

Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South won him critical acclaim, but they also made him controversial among fellow Southerners of the time who felt he was holding the region up to ridicule.
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Reviews

[John Dyson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Erskine Caldwell is an excellent writer. The first portion of this book, about his childhood and youth, is the most enjoyable to read. The remainder, his memoirs, is a typical autobiography.

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

With All My Might: An Autobiography by Erskine Caldwell (Peachtree Publishers 1987) (Biography). Erskine Caldwell, the acclaimed Southern author, was born the son of a Presbyterian preacher in 1903 in rural Georgia. His writings typically addressed poverty, racism, and other social problems in his native South. He authored the notorious volumes Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. As a son of the South, he was vilified by many Southerners as a traitor to the Southern way based on what many in the cotton states deemed to be his mean-spirited portrayals of the Southern way of life. However, he won widespread acclaim from the larger public for his steadfast support for the underdog. This is his tale; he died in 1987. My rating: 7/10, finished 7/8/16.