The search for George Sessions Perry, missing from his riverside home in Connecticut, entered its second month on Jan. 13, 1957 with no sign of the famous writer.
The future novelist and magazine contributor was born and raised in the Central Texas town of Rockdale. His father, owner of two drug stores, and artistic mother doted on their only child gladly granting his every wish.
Even though the Perrys did not live directly off the land, the sensitive boy empathized with the sharecroppers and tenant farmers of Milam County. Two of his early unpublished novels were scathing indictments of the rural poverty witnessed in his youth.
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