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
The Road to Memphis (novel) The Road to Memphis (novel) The Road to Memphis is a historical fiction novel written by Mildred D. Taylor. It was first published in 1990 by Penguin. It is the fourth book in the saga following: "Song of the Trees", "Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry" and "Let the Circle Be Unbroken". This would be the final book in the series chronologically to explore the story of the Logan family as a prequel to the series titled, "The Land", was released in 2001. The novel, like its predecessors, is narrated by Cassie Logan, who is now seventeen years old in