The Bus to Beulah

“Bus to Beulah takes us on a fast and furious ride through someof America’s toughest territory—straight into border problems,trafficking, and drug cartels—and features a Dickensian cast ofcharacters swirling around the kidnapped Maria through eleven tensedays. Topical, timely, terrifying. I read it one sitting.”—Lee Smith, best-selling author and winner of the American Academy ofArts and Letters award for fiction, the O’Henry Award, and MercerUniversity’s Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature“In The Bus to Beulah, Redge Hanes skillfully zeroes in on whathappens when our byzantine immigration laws, the powerful farmers’lobby. and local politics collide in bucolic North Carolina. In Billy Bowater,Hanes explored his state’s political jungle. Here, a local sheriffinvestigates the disappearance of a young woman and finds exploitativeconditions that allow a human and drug trafficking network to set upshop.”—Howell Raines, former executive editor of The New York Times

Eldridge C. Hanes—Redge to his friends—was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and graduated from Woodberry Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and then from Duke University in 1967 with a BA in Economics. He graduated from the Army Combat Engineering Officer Candidate School at Fort Belvoir in June of 1968 and served three years of active duty, the last of which was in the Republic of Vietnam and earned him the Bronze Star. After the army, Redge worked seven years for Hanes Corporation and then left to start Xpres Corporation, which eventually became The Russ Companies, for whom Redge served as chairman for three years before retiring in 2011. In addition to his business interests, he has served on a number of boards in the education, environmental and arts fields. Redge has published two novels, Billy Bowater and Justice by Another Name, in addition to contributing essays and articles to various publications. His essay “Helen of Marion” appeared in the recent UNC Press anthology, Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South. Redge has been married for fifty years to Jane Grenley Hanes. They have a son, Philip, and a daughter, Lara, and are grandparents of five lively and beautiful grandchildren. He lives in Winston-Salem, NC.

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