Joel Chandler Harris

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Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)

From The Recent Movement in Southern Literature, Harper's, May 1887

American Literature Sites
Foley Library Catalog

Biographical sketch and picture from the University of Virginia's Crossroads site.

"Remembering Joel Chandler Harris" from the Altanta Constitution site.

Teaching Harris's work from the Heath Anthology site.

Reading questions for Harris's introduction to Harris's Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings from Prof. C. J. Fontenot's African American literature class site (University of Illinois, Urbana)

Brief biographical sketch and bibliography by Prof. Barbara Ewell at Loyola University, New Orleans

Biographical sketch from Access Atlanta.

Biographical sketch and photograph from the Eatonton Festival site (2000).

Biographical sketch and pictures from the Moonlit Road site

Wren's Nest, a site for Harris's home (includes picture and brief biographical sketch) (New URL)

Works Available Online

Free Joe, and other Georgian Sketches (1887) (HTML from UNC's Documenting the American South)
Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings (Plain text from Project Gutenberg) (New URL)

Page Images from Cornell's Making of America Project

Ananias. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 76, issue 455 (April 1888).
At Teague Poteet's. A Sketch of the Hog Mountain Range. The Century, vol. 26, issue 2 (June 1883).
At Teague Poteet's. A Sketch of the Hog Mountain Range. The Century, vol. 26, issue 1 (May 1883).
Aunt Fountain's Prisoner. Scribner's Magazine, vol. 1, issue 3 (March, 1887).
Azalia. The Century, vol. 34, issue 5 (Sept 1887).
Azalia. The Century, vol. 34, issue 6 (Oct 1887).
Azalia. The Century, vol. 34, issue 4 (Aug 1887).
A Baby In The Siege. Scribner's Magazine, vol. 19, issue 4 (April,1896).
The Baby's Christmas. The Century, vol. 47, issue 2 (Dec 1893).
Balaam and his Master. The Century, vol. 41, issue 4 (Feb 1891).
A Belle of St. Valerien. The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 69, issue 413 (March 1892).
A Conscript's Christmas. The Century, vol. 41, issue 2 (Dec 1890).
Free Joe and the Rest of the World. The Century, vol. 29, issue 1 (Nov 1884).
How Whalebone Caused A Wedding. Scribner's Magazine, vol. 16, issue 5 (November, 1894).
Little Compton. The Century, vol. 33, issue 6 (Apr 1887).
The Mystery Of The Red Fox. Scribner's Magazine, vol. 14, issue 4 (October, 1893).
Nights with Uncle Remus. The Century, vol. 26, issue 3 (July 1883).
Nights with Uncle Remus. The Century, vol. 26, issue 5 (Sept 1883).
The Old Bascom Place. The Century, vol. 38, issue 4 (Aug 1889).
The Old Bascom Place. The Century, vol. 38, issue 5 (Sept 1889).
The Old Bascom Place. The Century, vol. 38, issue 6 (Oct 1889).
Plantation Memories. The Century, vol. 29, issue 4 (Feb 1885).
A Rainy Day with Uncle Remus. Scribner's Monthly, vol. 22, issue 2 (June 1881).
A Rainy Day with Uncle Remus. Scribner's Monthly, vol. 22, issue 4 (August 1881).
A Rainy Day with Uncle Remus. Scribner's Monthly, vol. 22, issue 3 (July 1881).
The Sea Island Hurricanes. I. The Devastation. Scribner's Magazine, vol. 15, issue 2 (February, 1894).
The Sea Island Hurricanes. II. The Relief. Scribner's Magazine, vol. 15, issue 3 (March, 1894).
Trouble on Lost Mountain. The Century, vol. 31, issue 3 (Jan 1886).
Uncle Remus's Christmas Dance-Songs. The Century, vol. 25, issue 3 (Jan 1883).
Two Plantation Songs. The Century, vol. 24, issue 1 (May 1882).

Comments to D. Campbell.