Bourke-White and novelist Erskine Caldwell were married from 1939 to their divorce in 1942, and they collaborated on "You Have Seen Their Faces" (1937), a book about conditions in the South during the Great Depression.
В 1939—1942 годах Бурк-Уайт была замужем за Эрскином Колдуэллом, вместе с которым они выпустили книгу «Вы видели их лица» (:en:You Have Seen Their Faces, 1937), посвященную Великой депрессии на американском юге.