In search of Bisco
By: Erskine Caldwell ; foreword by Wayne Mixon.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Caldwell, Erskine, 1903- -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.; Caldwell, Erskine, 1903- -- Childhood and youth.; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; African Americans -- Southern States.; Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-; Southern States -- Race relations.
Genres: Biography.
Description: In 1965, more than five decades after a forced estrangement from his black boyhood friend Bisco, Erskine Caldwell set out across the South find him.

On the journey, which took him from South Carolina to Arkansas, Caldwell spoke to many people on the pretense of asking Bisco's whereabouts: a black college professor in Atlanta, Georgia; a white real estate salesman in Demopolis, Alabama; a black sharecropper in the Yazoo Basin of the Mississippi Delta; a transplanted white New England housewife in Bastrop, Louisiana, and others. Eighteen of those conversations, with Caldwell's commentary make up this book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Brown thrasher books."
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.