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JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848-1908)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 20 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOEL See also:CHANDLER See also:HARRIS (1848-1908)  , See also:American author, was See also:born in Eatonton, See also:Putnam See also:county, See also:Georgia, on the 8th of See also:December 1848 . He started as an apprentice to the printer's See also:trade in the See also:office of the Countryman, a weekly See also:paper published on a See also:plantation not far from his See also:home . He then studied See also:law, and practised for a See also:short See also:time in Forsyth, Ga., but soon took to journalism . He joined the See also:staff of the See also:Savannah Daily See also:News in 1871, and in 1876 that of the See also:Atlanta Constitution, of which he was an editor from 1890 to 1901, and in this capacity did much to further the cause of the New See also:South . But his most distinctive contribution to this paper, and to American literature, consisted of his See also:dialect pieces dealing with See also:negro See also:life and See also:folklore . His stories are characterized by See also:quaint See also:humour, poetic feeling and homely See also:philosophy; and " See also:Uncle Remus," the See also:principal See also:character of most of them, is a remarkably vivid and real creation . The first collection of his stories was published in 188o as Uncle Remus: his Songs and his Sayings .. Among his later See also:works are Nights with Uncle Remus (1883), Mingo and Other Sketches in See also:Black and See also:White (1884), See also:Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches (1887), See also:Balaam and His See also:Master and Other Sketches and Stories (1891), Uncle Remus and His See also:Friends (1892), On the Plantation (1892), which is partly autobiographic, See also:Sister Jane (1896), The See also:Chronicles of Aunt Minervy See also:Ann (1899), and The See also:Tar-Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus (1904) . More purely juvenile are Daddy Jake the Runaway and Other Stories (1889), Little Mr Thimblejinger and his Queer See also:Country (1894) and its sequel Mr See also:Rabbit at Home (1895), See also:Aaron in the Wildwoods (1897), Plantation Pageants (1899), Told by Uncle Remus (1905), and Uncle Remus and Br'er Rabbit (1907) . He was one of the compilers of the Life of See also:Henry W . Grady, including his Writings and Speeches (1890) and wrote Stories of Georgia (1896), and Georgia from the Invasion of De See also:Soto to See also:Recent Times (1899) . He died in Atlanta on the 3rd of See also:July 1908 .

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