This article is about the novel. For the play, see Tobacco Road (play). For the film, see Tobacco Road (film). First edition (Scribners) 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. A 1941 film version, deliberately played mainly for laughs, was directed by John Ford, and the s…