Joel Chandler Harris Writer

Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution.Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880–1889), stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process.

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Birth date	December 09, 1845
Birth place	Georgia (U.S. state) , Eatonton Georgia
Date of death	July 03, 1908
Place of death	Atlanta , Georgia (U.S. state)
Children	Julian LaRose Harris

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influenced	A. A. Milne Beatrix Potter E. B. White Enid Blyton James Joyce Rudyard Kipling T. S. Eliot Thornton Burgess Ezra Pound Ralph Ellison William Faulkner Zora Neale Hurston Kenneth Grahame Mark Twain Flannery O'Connor Charles W. Chesnutt Frank Lebby Stanton
influenced by	Geoffrey Chaucer Jean de La Fontaine Oliver Goldsmith Mark Twain Aesop