Harris, Corra, 1869-1935

"Novelist Corra White Harris was one of the most celebrated women from Georgia for nearly three decades in the early twentieth century. She is best known for her first novel, A Circuit Rider's Wife (1910), though she gained a national audience a decade before its publication. From 1899 through the 1920s, she published hundreds of essays and short stories and more than a thousand book reviews in such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, and especially the Independent, a highly reputable New York-based periodical known for its political, social, and literary critiques. ... In 1887 she married Methodist minister and educator Lundy Howard Harris. They had three children, only one of whom-a daughter named Faith-lived beyond infancy. Harris's career developed out of financial necessity. Her husband's life in the Methodist ministry and in ministerial education was punctuated by incapacities from bouts of alcoholism and depression. Before and after Lundy Harris's death in 1910, Corra Harris assumed responsibility for her immediate and extended family's financial survival. She remained a widow, spending the last two decades of her life at the place she named 'In the Valley' just outside Cartersville in Bartow County. There she died in 1935, having outlived her daughter by sixteen years. " - "Corra Harris." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved August 1, 2008)

Corra May White Harris, journalist and novelist, was born in Elbert County, Georgia, 17 March 1869, and died in Atlanta, Georgia, 9 February 1935. She married Methodist clergyman Lundy Howard Harris, 8 February 1887. Her novel, A CIRCUIT RIDER'S WIFE (1909) is partially based on her experiences while Lundy Harris was a circuit rider in Hart County, Georgia. Before her death of a heart attack, she had published articles, editorials, book revews, newspaper columns, and serialized stories in many periodicals including THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, LADIES HOME JOURNAL, HARPER'S PICTORIAL REVIEW, and the Atlanta JOURNAL.

Corra Mae White Harris (1869-1935), American journalist and author, born in Elbert County, Georgia.

American author.

Novelist Corra Mae White Harris was one of the most celebrated women from Georgia for nearly three decades in the early twentieth century. She is best known for her first novel, A Circuit Rider's Wife (1910), though she gained a national audience a decade before its publication. From 1899 through the 1920s, she published hundreds of essays and short stories and more than a thousand book reviews in such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, and especially the Independent, a highly reputable New York-based periodical known for its political, social, and literary critiques. Harris established a reputation as a humorist, southern apologist, polemicist, and upholder of premodern agrarian values. At the same time she criticized southern writers who sentimentalized a past that never existed. Most of Harris's nineteen books were novels, though she also published two autobiographies, a travel journal, and a coauthored book of fictional letters. Two of her works became feature-length movies. Of these, the best known is I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951), inspired by A Circuit Rider's Wife. The film was written and produced by Georgia native Lamar Trotti and starred Susan Hayward and William Lundigan. She was the first female war correspondent to go abroad in World War I (1917-18). New Georgia Encyclopedia. (http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-484&hl=y) Retrieved 11/6/2009.

Corra Harris (1869-1935), of Georgia, was an author. Her husband was Lundy Howard Harris (died 1910), a Methodist preacher. Her publications include A Circuit Rider's Wife, 1910; Recording Angel, 1912; In Search of a Husband, 1913; Daughter of Adam, 1923; As a Woman Thinks, 1925; and other books, motion pictures, stories, and articles.