Caleb, My Son

About the Book

This distinguished first novel, a disturbing drama of the South first published in 1956 by J.P. Lippincott, depicts a father-son conflict intensified by racial inequality and clashing standards of heritage and justice.

“This book is the best document I know for doing away with [racial inequality] as it exists today...In the world it will have a real impact.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“A skilled performance...the book sways with affirmations as ancient as the Old Testament.”

Carl Sandburg

About the Author

Lucy Daniels, writer and clinical psychologist based in Raleigh, North Carolina, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1956 as a result of this book, her first novel and a best seller. After her second novel, High on a Hill (1961), she experienced writer’s block that only ended after years of psychoanalysis. Her memoir, With a Woman’s Voice, was published in 2001. In 2005, she published her first novel in forty years, The Eyes of the Father and Dreaming Your Way to Creative Freedom, a primer on using dreams to assist in creative work. A collection of stories written across her life, Walking with Moonshine, appeared in 2013.