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Joel Chandler Harris

1848 - 1908

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Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years, Harris spent most 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), which stressed 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joel Chandler Harris is the 5,753rd most popular writer (down from 5,123rd in 2019), the 9,488th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,289th in 2019) and the 695th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Joel Chandler Harris ranks 5,753 out of 7,302. Before him are Rói Patursson, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Robert E. Sherwood, Roma Ryan, Michael Shermer, and David Halberstam. After him are Penelope Lively, Claude McKay, Jacob Abbott, Park Wan-suh, Teréz Karacs, and Vigdis Hjorth.

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Among people born in 1848, Joel Chandler Harris ranks 112. Before him are Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde, Amos Burn, Eliodoro Villazón, Matthew Webb, Diederik Korteweg, and Surendranath Banerjee. After him are Albert Parsons, W. G. Grace, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Ivan Yakovlev, Lewis Howard Latimer, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Among people deceased in 1908, Joel Chandler Harris ranks 100. Before him are Marco Aurelio Soto, Charles Augustus Young, José Manuel Marroquín, Carl Koldewey, Federico Chueca, and Ignacio de Veintemilla. After him are Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, American Horse, Redvers Buller, Harriet Hosmer, and Old Tom Morris.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joel Chandler Harris ranks 9,490 out of 20,380. Before him are Martha Rosler (1943), Elizabeth Cotten (1893), Carmen Zapata (1927), George Perkins Marsh (1801), David Halberstam (1934), and Bob Brookmeyer (1929). After him are Tom Harrell (1946), Jacob Abbott (1803), Joe F. Edwards Jr. (1958), Paul Williams (1940), Johnny Rivers (1942), and Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joel Chandler Harris ranks 695. Before him are William Cullen Bryant (1794), Hanya Yanagihara (1974), Michael Parenti (1933), Robert E. Sherwood (1896), Michael Shermer (1954), and David Halberstam (1934). After him are Jacob Abbott (1803), William Blum (1933), James Dashner (1972), Elizabeth Gilbert (1969), Tim Powers (1952), and Fred Saberhagen (1930).

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