Erskine Caldwell was a writer whose work focused on poverty and the racial and social struggles of the South. His most famous novels include Annette, God's Little Acre, Jenny by Nature, and Trouble in July. Horacio Vazquez-Rial is a writer and a translator whose other translations include Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag, Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter, and The Pearl by John Steinbeck.