"Tobacco Road (novel) Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers. It was dramatized for Broadway by Jack Kirkland in 1933, and ran for eight years, an astounding feat for a non-musical and, as of 2014, it was still the 18th longest-running Broadway show in history as well as being the second-longest running non-musical ever on Broadway. The novel ultimately argues for the sterilization of Georgia's poor whites, as the author's father, Ira Caldwell, had argued in his 1930 article in ""The Eugenics Review"". A 1941 film version, deliberately played mainly for laughs, was directed by"
"Tobacco Road (song) ""Tobacco Road"" is a blues song written and first recorded by John D. Loudermilk in 1960 that was a hit for The Nashville Teens in 1964 and has since become a standard across several musical genres. Originally framed as a folk song, ""Tobacco Road"" was a semi-autobiographical tale of growing up in Durham, North Carolina. Released on Columbia Records, it was not a hit for Loudermilk, achieving only minor chart success in Australia. Other artists, however, immediately began recording and performing the song. The English group The Nashville Teens' garage rock/blues rock rendering was a bold effort"
"Next Day (2013). Tobacco Road (song) ""Tobacco Road"" is a blues song written and first recorded by John D. Loudermilk in 1960 that was a hit for The Nashville Teens in 1964 and has since become a standard across several musical genres. Originally framed as a folk song, ""Tobacco Road"" was a semi-autobiographical tale of growing up in Durham, North Carolina. Released on Columbia Records, it was not a hit for Loudermilk, achieving only minor chart success in Australia. Other artists, however, immediately began recording and performing the song. The English group The Nashville Teens' garage rock/blues rock rendering was"
"short stories, twelve nonfiction collections, two autobiographies, and two books for young readers. He also edited the influential American Folkways series, a 28-volume series of books about different regions of the United States. Erskine Caldwell has also written 'The first Autumn' Erskine Caldwell Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as ""Tobacco Road"" (1932) and ""God's Little Acre"" (1933) won him critical acclaim, but his advocacy of eugenics and the sterilization of"
"John Ford, and the storyline was considerably altered. The novel was included in ""Life"" magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924–1944. ""Tobacco Road"" is set in rural Georgia, several miles outside Augusta, Georgia during the worst years of the Great Depression. It depicts a family of poor white tenant farmers, the Lesters, as one of the many small Southern cotton farmers made redundant by the industrialization of production and the migration into cities. The main character of the novel is Jeeter Lester, an ignorant and sinful man who is redeemed by his love of the land and his"
"College, a Presbyterian school in nearby South Carolina. His political sympathies were with the working classes, and he used his experiences with farmers and common workers to write stories portraying their lives and struggles. Later in life he presented public seminars on the typical conditions of tenant-sharecroppers in the South. His first published works were ""The Bastard"" (1929) and ""Poor Fool"" (1930) but the works for which he is most famous are his novels ""Tobacco Road"" (1932) and ""God's Little Acre"" (1933). His first book, ""The Bastard,"" was banned and copies of it were seized by authorities. With the publication"
"(1935) starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray and Ray Milland. Jack Kirkland was married several times and had several children, one of whom was the ballerina Gelsey Kirkland. Jack Kirkland Jack Kirkland (Born July 25, 1902 in St. Louis, Missouri, died February 22, 1969 in New York City) was an American playwright, producer, director and screenwriter. Kirkland's greatest success was the play ""Tobacco Road"", adapted from the Erskine Caldwell novel. His other plays included ""Frankie and Johnny"", ""Tortilla Flats"", ""Suds in your Eye"", ""Mr. Adam"", ""Man with the Golden Arm"", and ""Mandingo"". Kirkland collaborated with Melville Baker on several screen projects"
"The Road The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic novel detailing the journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed most of civilization and, in the intervening years, almost all life on Earth. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2009, directed by John Hillcoat. A father and his"
"On the Road On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel, published in 1957, is a roman à clef, with many key figures of the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx) and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the"
"Erskine Caldwell Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as ""Tobacco Road"" (1932) and ""God's Little Acre"" (1933) won him critical acclaim, but his advocacy of eugenics and the sterilization of Georgia's poor whites became less popular following World War II. Caldwell was born on December 17, 1903, in the small town of White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia. He was the only child of Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church minister Ira Sylvester Caldwell"
"Jack Kirkland Jack Kirkland (Born July 25, 1902 in St. Louis, Missouri, died February 22, 1969 in New York City) was an American playwright, producer, director and screenwriter. Kirkland's greatest success was the play ""Tobacco Road"", adapted from the Erskine Caldwell novel. His other plays included ""Frankie and Johnny"", ""Tortilla Flats"", ""Suds in your Eye"", ""Mr. Adam"", ""Man with the Golden Arm"", and ""Mandingo"". Kirkland collaborated with Melville Baker on several screen projects including ""Zoo in Budapest"" (1933) starring Loretta Young and Gene Raymond, ""Now and Forever"" (1934) starring Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple, and ""The Gilded Lily"""
"The Road (London book) The Road is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907. It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time. He describes his experiences hopping freight trains, ""holding down"" a train when the crew is trying to throw him off, begging for food and money, and making up extraordinary stories to fool the police. He also tells of the thirty days that he spent in the Erie County Penitentiary, which he described as a place of"
"Lonely Road (novel) Lonely Road is a novel by British author Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1932 by William Heinemann and in the US by William Morrow. In 1936 it was adapted as a film, ""The Lonely Road"", released in the US the same year as ""Scotland Yard Commands"", starring Clive Brook and Victoria Hopper. The novel also served as the basis for an episode (no 14) in the BBC series ""The Jazz Age"" in 1968. The book begins with a note from the solicitor for Commander Malcolm Stevenson, who, we learn, has died recently (in about 1930),"
"The Ghost Road The Ghost Road is a war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1995 and winner of the Booker Prize. It is the third volume of a trilogy that follows the fortunes of shell-shocked British army officers towards the end of the First World War. The other books in the trilogy are ""Regeneration"" and ""The Eye in the Door"". The war poet Siegfried Sassoon, who appears as a major character in the first book, ""Regeneration"", is relegated to a minor role in this final volume, in which the main players are the fictional working-class officer Billy Prior"
"Tobacco Road (Common Market album) Tobacco Road is the second studio album by Seattle-based hip-hop duo Common Market. It was released on September 9, 2008 via Hyena Records and Massline Media. The album's title is a reference to the tobacco-producing region of North Carolina. The album was close to completion in September 2007, but for reasons unrevealed, the album fell apart and the duo lost 15 weeks worth of work. However, a friend of the group pulled some strings and managed to get them some studio time at London Bridge Studios in Shoreline, WA. Five days later, a second cut"
"it was scripted by Dudley Nichols and Ford, in consultation with O'Neill. Although not a significant box-office success (it grossed only $600,000 in its first year), it was critically praised and was nominated for seven Academy Awards—Best Picture, Best Screenplay, (Nichols), Best Music (Best Photography (Gregg Toland), Best Editing (Sherman Todd), Best Effects (Ray Binger & R.T. Layton), and Best Sound (Robert Parrish). It was one of Ford's personal favorites; stills from it decorated his home and O'Neill also reportedly loved the film and screened it periodically. ""Tobacco Road"" (1941) was a rural comedy scripted by Nunnally Johnson, adapted from"
"Back Roads (novel) Back Roads is the 1999 novel by the American writer Tawni O'Dell, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in March 2000. Harley Altmyer, a nineteen-year-old, has to care for his three sisters as his mother is in jail for killing his abusive father. Living in the coal town of Laurel Falls in backwoods Western Pennsylvania, he lusts after a mother of two who lives down the lane. Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking beer and chasing girls. He should be freed from his stifling coal town with its lack of jobs and no"
"The Salt Roads The Salt Roads is a novel by Canadian-Jamaican writer Nalo Hopkinson, published in 2003. It has been categorized as historical fiction, speculative fiction, science fiction, and magical realism. The novel was called ""a fabulous, wonderful, inventive novel... a fine celebration of African heritage"" by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Though it has been said that the novel ""may have left its sci-fi/fantasy roots behind"", it was nonetheless warmly received as a work that was quintessentially ""Hopkinson"" in many respects, not the least of which was its ""re-creation of independent Black space"". Hopkinson has been lauded for embracing uncommon vernaculars"
"The Long Hard Road Out of Hell The Long Hard Road Out of Hell is the autobiography of Marilyn Manson, leader of the American rock band of the same name. The book was released on February 14, 1998 and written with the help of Neil Strauss (of ""Rolling Stone""). The book follows Manson's life from when he was a child, born as Brian Hugh Warner, until the events of the band's controversial Dead to the World Tour. It also details his grandfather's sexual fetishes' (including bestiality and sadomasochism) influence to the forming of Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, to"
"Tomson Highway Tomson Highway, CM (born 6 December 1951) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, novelist, and children's author. He is best known for his plays ""The Rez Sisters"" and ""Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing"", both of which won him the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award. Highway has also published a novel, ""Kiss of the Fur Queen"" (1998), which is based on the events that led to his brother René Highway’s death of AIDS. He also has the distinction of being the librettist of the first Cree language opera, ""The Journey or Pimooteewin"". Tomson Highway"
"immoral. The May 4, 1941 episode of the ""Texaco Star Theater"" radio show started with comedian Fred Allen doing a sketch about the closing of ""Tobacco Road"" on Broadway. He asked various characters how they felt about the closing. In the song ""Come Up To My Place"" from the musical ""On the Town"", which takes place in 1944, Chip asks the cab driver Hildy to take him to several defunct New York attractions, including Tobacco Road. Tobacco Road (play) Tobacco Road is a play by Jack Kirkland first performed in 1933, based on the 1932 novel of the same name"
"On the Jellicoe Road On the Jellicoe Road is a young adult novel by Australian novelist Melina Marchetta. It was first published in Australia in 2006 by Penguin Australia under the title ""On the Jellicoe Road"", where it was awarded the 2008 West Australia Young Readers Book (WAYRB) Award for Older Readers. It was later published in the United States in 2008 under the abbreviated title ""Jellicoe Road"" by HarperTeen and went on to win the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association. The story is set around the life of Taylor Lily Markham, the 17-year-old leader"
"The Three Roads The Three Roads is a 1948 mystery novel written by Kenneth Millar. This was Millar's fourth novel, and the final one published using his real name—he is generally better known by his later pseudonym Ross Macdonald. ""For now I am discovered vile, and of the vile. O ye three roads, and thou concealed dell, and Oaken copse, and narrow outlet of three ways, which drank my own blood..."" - Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus Lieutenant Bret Taylor married his wife after knowing her only over a single overnight drinking binge while on shore leave during the war. His ship"
"Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road is a memoir written by the American country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, published by HarperCollins. The book received positive reviews, and became quickly a ""New York Times"" Best Seller upon its release. The book is a diary and memoir containing reminiscences and family recollections of country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, published by HarperCollins in November 2012 following the release of the similarly titled song. It also contains rare family pictures and other artwork made"
"Toad Road Toad Road is a 2012 American independent horror thriller film directed and written by Jason Banker. ""Toad Road"" stars Sara Anne Jones, who died of a drug overdose shortly after the film's premiere, as a young college student that is introduced to drugs and becomes obsessed with an urban legend about a road leading to Hell. The film premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival and had a limited release in October 2013. Slacker James and his friends spend their days abusing alcohol and drugs and their nights at various parties. He moves through his life with a sense"
"Place Called Estherville Place Called Estherville is a novel written by Erskine Caldwell, most famous for his novels ""Tobacco Road"" and ""God's Little Acre"". The book was first published in 1949 by Duell, Sloan & Pearce and later published in paperback by Signet Books. It would go on to sell more than 1.5 million copies. The novel centers on a biracial brother and sister, Ganus and Kathyanne Bazemore. After their mother dies, they move to a segregated town called Estherville to help take care of their sick aunt. They face abuse from the town that culminates in tragedy. Chapter One"
"The Darkest Road The Darkest Road is a 1986 novel by Canadian fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay and the third and final book in ""The Fionavar Tapestry"" trilogy. It follows ""The Summer Tree"" and ""The Wandering Fire"". Kim and Matt, with the help of Tabor and Imraith-Nimphais, rescue the Paraiko. Ruana, their leader, chants ""kanior""—a ritual of forgiveness and lamentation for the dead that is tied to the Paraiko's non-violent nature and the bloodcurse that protects them. So powerful is his performance that it invokes not only all the Paraiko that have died through the centuries but even their enemies;"
"Richard Snow Richard F. Snow (born 1947) is an American historian and writer of novels and short stories. Snow is the author of the 1981 novel, ""The Burning"", a fictionalized account of the Hinckley, Minnesota, fire of 1894. His other works include ""The Funny Road"" (1975) and ""The Iron Road"" (1979), which was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor book in 1979. Snow graduated from Columbia University in 1970 and began working at ""American Heritage Magazine"". succeeding, Byron Dobell, he served as the editor of from 1990 to 2007. After the magazine closed, he returned to writing full-time, penning ""A"
"who fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan. The following are the awards and honors bestowed on Theroux during his career. Paul Theroux Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is ""The Great Railway Bazaar"" (1975). He has published numerous works of fiction, some of which were adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel ""The Mosquito Coast,"" which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name. He is the father of British authors and documentary filmmakers Marcel Theroux and"
"and sets off for Manchester, where he meets a street gang. He becomes a member and stays with them for a while. They taught him about Manchester and he taught them how to use a sling. Suddenly, an epidemic spread through the gang. A member, called Lookout, becomes sick and soon dies. The Whispering Road The Whispering Road is a children's book by Livi Michael, published in 2005. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Bronze Award and the Stockton Children's Book of the Year Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize. ""The Whispering Road"""
"The Way to Dusty Death The Way to Dusty Death is a thriller novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. It was originally published in 1973. The title is a quotation from the famous soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 5 in Shakespeare’s play ""Macbeth"". The book was published in 1973 and became a best seller. The ""Chicago Tribune"" thought Maclean was writing ""as a parody of himself"". The protagonist, Johnny Harlow, a world champion Formula 1 racing driver, was in a devastating accident during the French Grand Prix, which caused the death of his best friend, a Californian driver and"
"the Road"". Reed College in Portland, Oregon was also a locale for some of the Beat poets. Gary Snyder studied anthropology there, Philip Whalen attended Reed, and Allen Ginsberg held multiple readings on the campus around 1955 and 1956. Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen were students in Reed's calligraphy class taught by Lloyd J. Reynolds. Burroughs was introduced to the group by David Kammerer, who was in love with Carr. Carr had befriended Ginsberg and introduced him to Kammerer and Burroughs. Carr also knew Kerouac's girlfriend Edie Parker, through whom Burroughs met Kerouac in 1944. On August 13, 1944, Carr"
"London's The Road. He died in Chicago. Willard had been a heavy smoker since the age of nine and a long-time alcoholic. At age thirty-seven he contracted pneumonia. He was in Chicago for ""Cosmopolitan"", working on a story about pool gambling when he fell ill, locked himself in a hotel room, and stayed until he died. Josiah Flynt Josiah Flynt (properly Josiah Flynt Willard) (January 23, 1869 – January 20, 1907) was an American sociologist and author. Born at Appleton, Wisconsin, to Oliver and Mary Bannister Willard. His father was editor of the local paper. He would later say that"