Tobacco Road (novel) 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
A Bend in the Road six lives. The novel is written in third person and there are some chapters in which it turns to first person and Missy's killer narrates his version of what happened. A Bend in the Road A Bend in the Road is the fifth novel by the American author Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote the romance love novels "A Walk to Remember", "The Notebook", and "The Rescue". It was published in 2001. The story was inspired by Sparks's brother-in-law, Bob. Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife Missy was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As