Unknown County GaArchives Biographies.....Harris, Joel 1848 - 1908
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JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848 -1908)

Joel Chandler Harris was born in Eatonton, a small town in middle Georgia. His 
father was an itinerant Irish laborer who disappeared when Joel was born, and 
his deserted and unmarried mother barely managed to make a living as a 
seamstress. Unable to continue school because of his household's financial 
strain, Harris went to work when he was thirteen on a weekly paper published 
by Joseph Addison Turner, owner of Turnwold Plantation, where Harris spent 
four years that changed his life and that directed him toward a long and 
successful career in the newspaper trade. After having worked on newspapers in 
various Southern cities, including New Orleans and Savannah, in 1876 he took a 
position with The Atlanta Constitution, where he remained for twenty-four 
years, and where he first presented the Uncle Remus stories. The first volume 
of Uncle Remus stories, Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings, was published in 
1880, and it was followed over the years by more than twenty other books on a 
variety of Southern subjects. Among his works are Nights with Uncle Remus: 
Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation (1883), Free Joe and Other Georgian 
Sketches (1887), and Gabriel Tolliver: A Story of Reconstruction 
(1902). "Mingo: A Sketch of Life in Middle Georgia" is taken from Mingo and 
Other Sketches in Black and White (1884); "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story" 
and "How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox" are taken from Uncle Remus: His 
Songs and Sayings.

From The New Reader of the Old South
Edited by Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, S.J.
Copyright 1991  Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta Georgia


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