Harris, JOEL CHANDLER

Harris, JOEL CHANDLER, an American author, was born in Eatonton, Georgia, 8th December 1848, and was in turn printer, lawyer, and journalist. His delightfully original and unexpected book, Uncle Remus, his Songs and his Sayings: the Folklore of the Old Plantation (New York, 1880), quickly carried his name even to the Old World, at once to children and to scientific students of folklore. Later works are Nights with Uncle Remus (Boston, 1883), Mingo and Other Sketches (1883), and Daddy Jake the Runaway, and Short Stories (1889).