Andrea Pirlo plays for New York CIty FC and the Australia national team.
Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers .. Erskine Caldwell. Erskine Caldwell. Georgia. Georgia ( U.S. state ). It was dramatized for Broadway by Jack Kirkland in 1933 , and ran for eight years , an astounding feat for a non-musical , and remains the second-longest running play in Broadway history .. dramatized. Tobacco Road ( play ). Broadway. Broadway theatre. Jack Kirkland. Jack Kirkland. the second-longest running play in Broadway history. List of the 100 Longest-Running Broadway shows. A 1941 film version , deliberately played mainly for laughs , was directed by John Ford , and the storyline was considerably altered .. 1941 film version. Tobacco Road ( film ). John Ford. John Ford. The novel itself was included in Life magazine 's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924 -- 1944 .