Joel Chandler Harris

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Joel Chandler Harris (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Joel Chandler Harris’s literary talents were considerably broader than the Uncle Remus tales for which he is so well known. He was an accomplished editor, essayist, folklorist, and biographer, and he wrote several romantic novels.

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Joel Chandler Harris was best known in his day for his collections of Uncle Remus tales, particularly Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings and Nights with Uncle Remus, tales which were not created but recorded by him. When the American Academy of Arts and Letters was founded in...

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• Joel Chandler Harris (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
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See Also:

• Complete Tales of Uncle Remus, The (Character Profiles)
• Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, The (Short Stories)
• Tales of Uncle Remus (Masterplots Classics)
• Wonderful Tar-Baby Story, The (Short Stories)
• Fable Tradition, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)