The Henley Bridge is mentioned in three novels by author Cormac McCarthy. In The Orchard Keeper (1968), a bootlegger's car breaks down on the bridge. In Suttree (1979), a homeless man known as The Ragpicker lives under the south end of the bridge. In The Road (2006), the Henley Bridge is the high concrete bridge the father and son cross near the beginning of the novel en route to the Great Smoky Mountains to the south. It is also mentioned in the start of Mountain Treachery, an Amazon.com e-novel by Matt Reid.