Joseph Caldwell

From the 1950s through the 1970s, downtown Manhattan was a hotbed of creative life where artists and writers were free to explore ideas and push boundaries. As a young man, celebrated author and playwright Joseph Caldwell arrived from Milwaukee....

When a photographer witnesses a violent crime in New York's Lower East Side, he hunts down the missing camera that may hold answers....

Enjoy a “second helping” from the obstreperous creature that romped so riotously through The Pig Did It with this sequel, The Pig Came to Dinner....

A pig escapes from its pen and roots up the garden of Kitty McCloud, a best-selling novelist who "corrects" the classics....

Kitty, Kieran, Lolly, and Aaron—the main characters of the previous two Pig Trilogy novels—would be expected to be living happily ever after at this point....

An American opera singer travels to Naples and becomes embroiled in his strangest role yet....

With Dostoevskyian ambition, Bread for the Baker's Child sets out to probe the large questions of good and evil, culpability and sacrifice, and the meaning of suffering....

After her husband's death, a mother moves her family onto a farm and hatches a scheme to win back the land she used to own....

A young carpenter finds himself in turmoil as his wife rapidly descends into mental illness....

This dark, propulsive novel, the crowning masterwork by 92-year-old Joseph Caldwell, takes place during 1992, when AIDS was still an incurable scourge and death casualties were everyday events....