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Title: With All My Might: An Autobiography ISBN 13: 978-1-56145-665-9 ISBN 10: 1-56145-665-9 Author: Erskine Caldwell Pub month: 4/1/12 Illustrator: In warehouse: 1/1/12 Editor: Print run: Price: $16.95 Format: trade paperback Category: Memoir Trim size: 6½ x 9½ Ages and grades: Adult Page count: 333 Territory: U.S. & Canada Illustrations: 19 B&W photos photographs Rights: McIntosh + Otis Media: n/a

Author’s profile: Erskine Caldwell was the author of twenty-five novels, including God's Little Acre and Tobacco Road . His books have sold eighty million copies and been translated into forty-three languages. He died in 1987.

Sales handle: In this forthright and unapologetic autobiography, esteemed author Erskine Caldwell recounts his personal and literary battles.

Book description: In 1932, Erskine Caldwell’s first novel, Tobacco Road , was the center of controversy. Some critics condemned the book; others considered it to be the work of a genius. Today Caldwell’s fifty-plus books have sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, and his stature as a writer has been firmly established.

In With All My Might , Caldwell tells about his work as a cotton picker, stagehand, professional football player, and war correspondent for Life magazine during World War II. He describes his four marriages (including his much-publicized divorce from photographer Margaret Bourke-White). He writes of the sacrifices he made and the rejections he suffered during the years he was struggling to have his work published. In his own unique style, Erskine Caldwell shares his perspective on a life as full and interesting as any he ever dreamed up for his characters.

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Selling Points: • Engaging autobiography by the author of Tobacco Road and God’s Little Acre • A window into the tumultuous life of a controversial 20 th Century literary icon

Awards and honors: • “...mesmerizing autobiography, written with the artistry that marks his works.” —Publishers Weekly Sales competition: ÍSBN TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER PUB PRICE DATE 978-0-52026-719-0 Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 Mark Twain Univ. of CA Press 11/10 $34.95 978-0-06093-555-9 One Matchless Time: A Life of Jay Parini Harper Perennial 06/05 $16.95 William Faulkner 978-1-88242-511-2 Storyteller : A Life of Erskine C.J. Stevens John Wade Pub 08/00 $26.00 Caldwell 978-0-87049-775-9 Erskine Caldwell: A Biography Harvey L. Univ. TN Press 10/93 $21.00 Klevar 978-0-14014-417-8 John Steinbeck, Writer Jackson J. Penguin 12/90 $35.00 Benson 978-0-87805-432-9 Erskine Caldwell Reconsidered Edwin T. Arnold Univ. Press of MS 03/90 $40.00 978-0-87805-344-5 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell Edwin T. Arnold Univ. Press of MS 3/88 $25.00

Author’s previous books : ÍSBN TITLE PUBLISHER PUB DATE PRICE 978-0-82032-105-9 Trouble in July University of Georgia Press 03/99 $18.95 978-0-78640-108-6 Erskine Caldwell: Selected Letters, Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub 03/99 $48.50 1929-1955 978-1-89232-375-0 Place Called Estherville McIntosh & Otis Books 06/98 $16.00 978-0-82031-694-9 The Stories of Erskine Caldwell University of Georgia Press 10/96 $24.95 978-0-82031-848-6 Journeyman University of Georgia Press 08/96 $18.95 978-0-82031-736-6 Georgia Boy University of Georgia Press 08/95 $18.95 978-0-82031-661-1 Tobacco Road University of Georgia Press 02/95 $18.95 978-0-820316-63-5 God’s Little Acre University of Georgia Press 01/95 $18.95 978-0-82031-692-5 You Have Seen Their Faces University of Georgia Press 01/95 $26.95 978-0-71810-685-0 Summertime Island Signet 08/69

BISAC: • BIO007000 / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary • BIO000000 / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General