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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908)
		Harris found himself a published author at age twenty, and he had also learned that writing was in his blood.
		Harris soon was recognized as one of the country's most important chroniclers of the changing face of the Old South become New.
		Harris died on July 3, 1908, of acute nephritis and was buried in Westview Cemetery, West End, Atlanta.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-525 (2454 words)

	Joel Chandler Harris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joel Chandler Harris (December 8, 1848 - July 3, 1908) was an American journalist from Georgia, best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories: Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings (1881), Nights with Uncle Remus (1883), Uncle Remus and His Friends (1892), and Uncle Remus and the Little Boy (1905).
		The stories, based on the African-American oral storytelling tradition, were revolutionary in their use of dialect and in featuring a trickster hero called Brer ("Brother") Rabbit, who uses his wits against adversity, though his efforts do not always succeed.
		Paul Reuben wrote, “Joel Chandler Harris was a white man, born of poor parents, who at thirteen left home and became an apprentice to Joseph Addison Turner, a newspaper publisher and plantation owner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joel_Chandler_Harris (496 words)

	Biography of Joel Chandler Harris
		Harris insisted that his sources were genuine and that his documentation of the plot and dialect was accurate.
		Harris helped inspire other writers in the vernacular through his adroit use of narrative forms, his excellent ear for the subtleties of dialect, and his ability to emphasize the universal nature of these classic standoffs between the weak and the powerful.
		OEL CHANDLER HARRIS was born in utter poverty in Putnam County in 1848.
	www.uncleremus.com /bio.html (956 words)

	Who is Joel Chandler Harris?
		Harris took the love and devotion he found in the Negro slaves of his childhood and recorded their stories.
		Joel Chandler Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, in 1848.
		Harris took the vivid tales told by Negroes and used them to portray the suffering felt by both himself as a youth laboring in the fields, and fl slaves.
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	Famous Men Authors - Joel Chandler Harris
		Harris was born in 1848 in what used to be known as Middle Georgia.
		Harris is hardly forty years of age, but his snow-white hair tells the sorrow of his life.
		Joel attended Eatonton Academy for a few terms, and at the age of twelve went to work for Colonel Turner, the publisher of a weekly called The Countryman.
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	Harris, Joel Chandler on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER [Harris, Joel Chandler] 1848-1908, American short-story writer and humorist, b.
		Plutarch's 'Life of Alexander' and Joel Chandler Harris's story of "Brother Rabbit, Brother Fox and Two Fat Pullets" (1918).
		Harris Homes no longer forgotten With $35 million grant, Atlanta will team up with Spelman and Morehouse to transform public housing area.
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	Joel Chandler Harris
		During this perio d Harris divided his time between editorial writing (urging southerners to "reconstruct" their habits and to rise above the conflicts of their past) and the dialect tales, which began to appear in print under the guise of Uncle Remus, the old slave.
		A native of Eatonton, Joel Chandler Harris gained fame a century ago as the writer of children's stories told in dialect by Uncle Remus, a slave who entertained a young white boy with American folktales.
		When Harris published his first Uncle Remus book in 1880, he was simply doing what he often advised his children to do when they wrote letters home.
	www.rootsweb.com /~gaputnam/Bio/joelharrisbio.htm (1855 words)

	Margaret Everhart, "Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus)"
		Joel was well pleased with the surroundings of the town of Monroe, in Forsyth County, and boarded with the proprietor of the paper, Mr.
		Joel, as a man of affairs, took op his residence, were a middle aged couple, Captain Pierre LaRose and his wife, Esther Dupont LaRose and three children, native of St. Ephrem d'Upton in the Province of Quebec.
		Harris has written a large part autobiographic, is dedicated to his good friend James Whitcomb Riley, and "Jeems", as Riley often signed his letters to his friend, dedicated a complete edition of his works in ten volumes "To Joel".
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	Joel Chandler Harris Home--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		Harris was also a prominent journalist and editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper.
		Harris also built homes for three of his children on lots on the west side of his property facing Lawton Street.
		The Joel Chandler Harris Home, more commonly known as the Wren't Nest, is located at 1050 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd., in SW Atlanta, off I-20 at exit 19.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/atlanta/har.htm (406 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Joel Chandler Harris
		Harris, Joel Chandler (1848-1908), American writer, famous as the creator of the “Uncle Remus” tales.
		Harris, Robert (1849-1919), Canadian portraitist known for capturing on canvas the leading personalities of his day.
		Katherine Harris certifying Florida’s vote in the 2000 Presidential election
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	Joel Chandler Harris Biography & Stories
		Joel Harris Chandler Biography, the Song of the South and Brer Rabbit
		President Roosevelt said Joel Harris Chandler was "a genius", and his books were, "the most striking and powerful permanent contributions to literature that have been produced on this side of the ocean."
		The character of Uncle Remus was the idea of Joel Harris Chandler which he added on the the nationally published works of Robert Roosevelt.
	www.geocities.com /oldsayville/brer_bio.htm (1242 words)

	Harris, Joel Chandler - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Harris, Joel Chandler
		Brer Rabbit is one of the most famous and most endearing heroes created by US writer Joel Chandler Harris in his ‘Uncle Remus’ stories.
		Brer Rabbit is shown, in an illustration by J A Shepherd from 1901, relaxing in front of his fireplace.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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	Harris Background
		Born in the Putman County seat of Eatonton, Georgia, in the late days of the antebellum South, Joel Chandler Harris was the love child of Mary Harris, a respectable, unmarried woman, who, at thirty-one, ran away from her home in an adjoining county with an Irish day laborer.
		While Harris was never fully separated from his vision of a loving, egalitarian, slave-holding Confederacy, his sympathy and his literary fame would rest with those who, like himself, learned to survive on the margins of white privilege and power.
		Harris' stories of Uncle Remus create an antebellum climate of mutual trust, a gentle South of mostly beneficial race relations, one that northerners could respect, even admire.
	www.loyno.edu /%7Ebewell/400S/harrisintro.html (1067 words)

	Joel Chandler Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From 1866 to 1876 Harris worked on various newspapers in Georgia and Louisiana, and in 1876 he began working at the Atlanta Constitution, where he stayed until 1900.
		With these stories Harris became one of the first American authors to use dialect to evoke a specific time and place; at the same time the Uncle Remus tales address and comment on universal human characteristics.
		Harris also wrote other works depicting Southern life, including Mingo, and Other Sketches in Black and White (1884), Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War (1898), and the novels Sister Jane (1896) and Gabriel Tolliver (1902).
	www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Biographies/Joel_Harris (269 words)

	Joel Chandler Harris
		Joel Chandler Harris was an accomplished and well-known writer in his time.
		Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia and was raised by his single mother.
		Harris used the language and dialect of the "old south" negro slave in his writings of Uncle Remus.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/18661913/lit/harris.htm (1256 words)

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		Joel Chandler Harris was a white journalist who wanted to record the folktales of African-American slaves.
		Harris insisted that he was only a "compiler," that he did not mold or shape the stories in the retelling.
		Harris said that the character of Uncle Remus was a composite, based on three or four old fl men whom he had known and whose personalities he had "walloped together" in writing the stories.
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	Joel Chandler Harris -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (1880) derived many episodes from beast tales carried to the United States by African slaves.
		Harris' “Tar-Baby” (1879), one of the animal tales told by the character Uncle Remus, is but one example of numerous African-derived tales featuring the use of a wax, gum, or rubber figure to trap a rascal.
		Joel Chandler Harris, through his character Uncle Remus, depicted plantation life in the Deep South.
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	Honorees - Joel Chandler Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At thirteen Joel Chandler Harris, the chronically shy, red-headed illegitimate son of an Irish day-laborer, left the home he shared with his impoverished mother and began his to-be-illustrious career as a typesetter's apprentice on a plantation newspaper near Eatonton.
		At the Constitution Harris began writing sketches in a rendition of African-American dialect from which sprang the "Uncle Remus" character with which he is popularly associated.
		Ultimately Joel Chandler Harris's work led to his election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1905, where he was chosen to be a charter member of an elect pantheon of American writers along with the likes of Mark Twain, Henry James, and Henry Adams.
	www.libs.uga.edu /gawriters/harris.html (757 words)

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		Joel Chandler Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia on December 9, 1848.
		The technique that Joel Chandler Harris used was that he told his stories in the first person.
		Chandler died in Atlanta, Georgia on July 3, 1908.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/harris_joel_chandler_ga.htm (196 words)

	American Literature - Joel Chandler Harris
		A remarkable contribution to American literature was made by Joel Chandler Harris in his negro dialect fables, popularly known as "Uncle Remus." Harris was born in 1848 at Eatonton, Georgia, learned the printer's trade and studied law before he settled down to journalism.
		The four-footed hero of these new fables is Brer Rabbit, who, weak as he is, manages by his shrewdness to get ahead of the fox, the wolf and the bear, and other smart and strong folk.
		In his book, "On the Plantation," Harris tells his early experiences, and in other books he shows his affectionate feeling for the negro as well as the white.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles35/american-lit-48.shtml (156 words)

	Joel Chandler Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1902) for many years was a journalist for the Atlanta Constitution; however he is best known for his Uncles Remus tales.
		It was in the Constitution that Harris first published the tales.
		Harris intended the work to be a serious anthology of the old slave stories.
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	Joel Chandler Harris, 1848-1908 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Harris, the illegitimate son of Mary Harris and an Irish laborer, was born on 9 December 1848, near Eatonton, Ga. His death from nephritis came in Atlanta on 3 July 1908.
		Although Harris disavowed regionalism in art ("My idea is that truth is more important than sectionalism, and that literature that can be labeled Northern, Southern, Western, or Eastern, is not worth labeling at all"), his writings are unsurpassed in reflecting the southern environment.
		His short stories are born of the Georgia soil, his novels echo the strains of the Civil War South, his editorials for the Constitution deal with southern social and political issues, and, of course, his famed Uncle Remus tales capture the diction and dialect of the plantation fls while presenting genuine folk legends.
	docsouth.unc.edu /harrisj/bio.html (553 words)

	Joel Chandler Harris Biography / Biography of Joel Chandler Harris Main Biography
		American writer Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) used folklore, fiction, dialect, and other devices of local color to picture both fl and white Georgians under slavery and Reconstruction.
		Joel Chandler Harris was born in Eatonton, Ga., the illegitimate son of Mary Harris.
		Scantily educated, at 13 Harris became an apprentice printer on a little newspaper edited and published by Joseph Addison Turner, a highly literate planter, lawyer, and writer, and learned about writing under Turner's tutelage.
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	eBay - joel chandler harris, Children's Books, United States items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joel Chandler Harris FDC ~ 1948, CC, Staehle
		Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris (1986) HBDJ
		Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris...
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	Remus Bibl. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the first, most definitive biographies on Harris which places special emphasis on the author’s early literary works as well as his career as journalist.
		Stating that “Harris brought much of [his] inner complexity into his literary work,” Bickley’s goal is to augment existing biographical works on Harris.
		These new essays show the growing variety and richness of Harris scholarship and the fields in which it is concerned such as biographical, linguistic, business, folkloric, literary, and racial/political.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~abiviano/JCH/core.html (540 words)

	brer_rabbit
		For that is where Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) was born.
		Harris assured his critics that he made none of these stories up.
		Harris deliberately removes elements of human conscience from his animal characters to cause us to reflect.
	www.patrickkillough.com /ethics/brer_rabbit.html (1013 words)

	Mercer University Press: Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the "Cornfield Journalist"
		Joel Chandler Harris was widely praised by his contemporaries for his writing and insights into fl American folklore and language.
		It is biography, but it is also an analysis of fl speech and dialect, a discussion of folklore, observations on race, and a survey of the cultural influences of Joel Chandler Harris's 'Brer' animals.
		Describing Harris as 'loved at home, praised at work,' the author introduces the writer as an introverted, basically uncomplicated man who, as a columnist, turned to writing the stories he had heard as a boy growing up with African Americans.
	www.mupress.org /webpages/books/brasch.html (474 words)

	GRAPHIC COMM CENTRAL
		In the late 1850's Joel Chandler Harris saw the ad in the newspaper.
		The job provided Joel with a trade and an education beyond agriculture.
		Joel left and worked at a series of newspapers until The Atlanta Constitution allowed him the opportunity to write.
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	PAL: Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
		Joel Chandler Harris was a white man, born of poor parents, who at thirteen left home and became an apprentice to Joseph Addison Turner, a newspaper publisher and plantation owner.
		Brasch, Walter M. Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris.
		Montenyohl, Eric L. "Joel Chandler Harris and the Ethnologists: The Folk's View of Early American Folkloristics." Southern folklore 47.3 (1990): 227-238.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap5/harris.html (294 words)

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