What nom de plume was adopted by the writer Joel Chandler Harris?
"a problematic and contradictory figure: sometimes a mouthpiece for white paternalism, sometimes a stereotype of the black entertainer, and sometimes poetically subversive. Julius Lester, a black folklorist and university professor, sees the Uncle Remus stories as important records of black folklore. He has rewritten many of the Harris stories in an effort to elevate the subversive elements over the purportedly racist ones. Regarding the nature of the Uncle Remus character, Lester said, There are no inaccuracies in Harris's characterization of Uncle Remus. Even the most cursory reading of the slave narratives collected by the Federal Writer's Project of the 1930s"
"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 and helped to revolutionize literature in the process. Joel Chandler Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1848 to Mary Ann Harris, an Irish immigrant. His father, whose identity remains unknown, abandoned Mary Ann and the infant shortly after his birth. The parents had never married; the boy was named Joel after his mother's attending physician, Dr. Joel Branham. Chandler was the name of his mother's uncle. Harris remained self-conscious of his illegitimate birth throughout his"
"Joe Harris (writer) Joe Harris is an American comic book writer and screenwriter. He made his big screen debut in 2003 with his screenplay for the Sony Pictures release ""Darkness Falls"". He is currently the writer of the ongoing monthly comic book series ""Great Pacific"" from Image Comics and ""The X-Files: Season 10"" from IDW Publishing. In film, Harris' screenplay for ""Darkness Falls"" was based on ""Tooth Fairy"", his short film which presented a horrific twist on the children’s bedtime myth. He wrote the politically themed slasher film ""The Tripper"" which featured David Arquette as writer and director. In comics,"
"Thomas Harris William Thomas Harris III (born September 22, 1940) is an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. All of his works have been made into films, the most notable being ""The Silence of the Lambs"", which became only the third film in Academy Award history to sweep the Oscars in major categories. Harris was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but moved as a child with his family to Rich, Mississippi. He was introverted and bookish in grade school and then blossomed in high school. He attended Baylor University in"
"1845 edition of the ""Cherokee Advocate"", the same year Joel Chandler Harris was born. Rabbit and Hare myths abound among Algonquin Indians in Eastern North America, particularly under the name Nanabozho. The Great Hare is generally worshipped among tribes in eastern Canada. In ""That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community"" by Jace Weaver, the origins of Br'er Rabbit and other literature are discussed. To say that a story only originates from one culture and not another can only be true when a group of people exist in complete isolation from others. Although the Cherokee had"
"under the pen name ""Brian Harris"" he novelized the miniseries ""World War III"" His best-selling ""Closing Ceremonies,"" with the streamer ""Nazi Evil Lives On . . . And a Hunt to the Death Begins,"" prompted ""Publishers Weekly"" to name King in 1979 ""the crown prince of suspense."" ""Shelkagari"" is a story about the search in the Himalayas for a lost diamond that purportedly belonged to Alexander the Great. King's writing topics range from Himalayan subculture to disaster from nuclear reactors. In addition to his writing, King had been a taxi driver and a construction worker. King suffered from cancer and"
"said of Harris, ""All he is is a talent of the first rank."" Thomas Harris William Thomas Harris III (born September 22, 1940) is an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. All of his works have been made into films, the most notable being ""The Silence of the Lambs"", which became only the third film in Academy Award history to sweep the Oscars in major categories. Harris was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but moved as a child with his family to Rich, Mississippi. He was introverted and bookish in"
"""The Book of the Night"", was released in 2012. Under the pen name Jessica Freely, Harris has written numerous male/male erotic romance ebooks since 2008. Harris' second novel, ""Accidental Creatures"", won the first Spectrum Award for a science fiction novel dealing with LGBT characters, themes and issues, published in 1998. Her short story, ""Still Life with Boobs"", was a 2005 Nebula Award finalist for Best Short Story. Her other novels include ""The Nature of Smoke"" (her first, published in 1996, shortlisted in translation for the 2007 Japanese Sense of Gender Award) and ""Inventing Memory"", published in 2004. Harris ""has been"
"One of his best-known works, ""Cofiant Ieuan Ddu"", was a biography of his son, John Ryland Harris, who worked as a typesetter for his father's printing press and died at the age of twenty. The name of the Gomer Press was almost certainly chosen because of its founder J.D. Lewis' high regard for Joseph Harris. Joseph Harris (Gomer) Joseph Harris (1773 – 10 August 1825) was a Welsh Baptist minister, author, and journal editor. A Welsh language poet, he took the Biblical name of Gomer as his bardic name. On 1 January 1814 he launched the first Welsh-language weekly ""Seren"
"Donald Heiney Donald Heiney (; September 7, 1921 – July 24, 1993) was a sailor and academic as well as a prolific and inventive writer using the pseudonym of MacDonald Harris for fiction. Heiney was born in South Pasadena, California, and grew up in South Pasadena and San Gabriel. He served in the Merchant Marine and the Navy during World War II and afterward earned a B.A. from University of Redlands. He joined the faculty of University of California, Irvine in 1965 and later co-founded UCI's writing program. One of his students was Michael Chabon, who later won the Pulitzer"
"referred to the home as Snap Bean Farm, as a reference to fellow author Eugene Field's home Sabine Farm. The name ""Wren's Nest"" came from his discovery of a family of wrens living in the mailbox in the spring of 1895. After several years of correspondence, Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley visited Harris at Wren's Nest in 1900. Harris's children were especially interested in Riley and nicknamed him ""Uncle Jeems"". Ultimately, Harris wrote more than twenty books while living in the home as well as several editorials for the ""Atlanta Constitution"" and various articles for magazines and newspapers — including"
"""a doggy daycare worker"". Harris has lived in the Detroit, Michigan area all her life; as of 2016, she was living in Royal Oak with her husband Steve. Harris also teaches in Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction MFA program. Harris's literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series. Currently, she writes under two pseudonyms. As Pearl North she published ""Libyrinth"" in 2009. It is the first volume in a young adult science fiction trilogy. The second in the series, ""The Boy From Ilysies"", came out in November 2010, and the third,"
"Marilyn Harris (writer) Marilyn Harris (June 4, 1931 — January 18, 2002) was an American author best known for her seven-novel ""Eden"" series, an historical saga about the Eden family of England. The series contains ""This Other Eden"" (1977); ""The Prince of Eden"" (1978); ""The Eden Passion"" (1979); ""The Women of Eden"" (1980); ""Eden Rising"" (1982); ""American Eden"" (1987); and ""Eden and Honor"" (1989). She is also the author of the best selling novel, ""Hatter Fox"" (1973), adapted into a 1977 CBS movie, ""The Girl Called Hatter Fox"". Harris was born on June 4, 1931, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the"
"Seale Harris Seale Harris (March 13, 1870 – March 17, 1957) was an American physician and researcher born in Cedartown, Georgia. He was nicknamed ""the Benjamin Franklin of Medicine"" by contemporaries for his leadership and writing on a wide range of medical and political topics. Dr. Harris' most celebrated accomplishments were his 1924 hypothesis of hyperinsulinism as a cause of spontaneous hypoglycemia. Harris received a medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1894 and established a medical practice in Union Springs, Alabama. After the completion of postgraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Harris accepted the position of Professor"
"Harris Levey Harris Levey (August 13, 1921 – August 18, 1984), whose pseudonyms included Lee Harris, Leland Harris, and Harris Levy, was a comic book artist for DC Comics primarily in the 1940s. He co-created the Golden Age superhero Air Wave, who has continued, in new permutations, into the 21st century. As a teenager, Harris Levey studied at DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx. During his time there, he contributed illustrations to its literary magazine, ""The Magpie"". Harris changed his name legally from ""Harris Levey"" to ""Leland Harris"" in his late teens following high school. After graduating, he worked"
"wife at a cabin near Crown Point, New York in the Adirondack Mountains, Harris suffered a heart attack during a hike. He was taken to Lake Placid Memorial Hospital, where he succumbed to heart failure at age 63. Harris Levey Harris Levey (August 13, 1921 – August 18, 1984), whose pseudonyms included Lee Harris, Leland Harris, and Harris Levy, was a comic book artist for DC Comics primarily in the 1940s. He co-created the Golden Age superhero Air Wave, who has continued, in new permutations, into the 21st century. As a teenager, Harris Levey studied at DeWitt Clinton High School"
"above, include ""In the Midst of Earth"" (1969), ""The Peppersalt Land"" (1970), ""The Runaway's Diary"" (1971), ""The Conjurers"" (1974), ""Bledding Sorrow"" (1976), ""The Portent"" (1980), ""The Last Great Love"" (1981), ""The Diviner"" (1983), ""Warrick"" (1985), ""Night Games"" (1987), and ""Lost and Found"" (1991). The novel ""Hatter Fox"" was successfully filmed as a TV movie under the title ""The Girl Called Hatter Fox"" starring Ronny Cox (Dr. Teague Summer) and Joanelle Romero (the title character). The film marked the first time a Native American actress played a leading role. Harris's work has received a wide readership; in 1983, nine million of"
"known for ""The Southern Vampire Mysteries"" series, which HBO later adapted for its dramatic series entitled ""True Blood"". Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi. After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris began the lighthearted ""Aurora Teagarden"" books with ""Real Murders,"" a Best Novel 1990 nomination for the Agatha Awards. Harris wrote several books in the series before the mid-1990s when she began branching out into other works. She did not resume the series until 1999, with the exception of one short story in a ""Murder, She Wrote"" anthology titled ""Murder, They Wrote"". In 1996, she released the first in the ""Shakespeare"""
"age of 90 Harris acquired a new job as a voice-over artist with Soho Voices. Harris is one of the three authors who penned the six 'classic horror' novelizations credited to Carl Dreadstone and E.K. Leyton of which Harris wrote two: Werewolf of London and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Ramsey Campbell is one of the other 'Carl Dreadstones' and wrote three of the titles in the series, but the author of the sixth 'Dreadstone' title (""The Mummy"") remains unknown. Harris's New Avengers tie-in ""To Catch a Rat"" was published in 1977. Walter Harris (author) Walter Harris (born 1925) is"
"of the paper. Its named was changed to the ""Daily News and Herald"", though Thompson remained as editor. Thompson left the paper in 1867 to travel in Europe. In 1868, Thompson returned and the paper was renamed again to ""The Savannah Daily Morning News"" for one edition, then changed to the current name the following day. In 1870, Joel Chandler Harris, who later went on to write the Uncle Remus tales, became an assistant editor. As assistant editor, Harris launched a successful campaign to outlaw dueling, which was still popular in Savannah in the mid-19th century. Whereas previous editors had"
"also attributed the birth name ""Riley"" to Br'er Rabbit. Harris heard these tales in Georgia. Very similar versions of the same stories were recorded independently at the same time by the folklorist Alcée Fortier in southern Louisiana, where the Rabbit character was known as ""Compair Lapin"" in Creole. Enid Blyton, the English writer of children's fiction, retold the stories for children. Although Joel Chandler Harris collected materials for his famous series of books featuring the character Br'er Rabbit in the 1870s, the Br'er Rabbit cycle had been recorded earlier among the Cherokees: The ""tar baby"" story was printed in an"
"Mark Harris (author) Mark Harris (November 19, 1922 – May 30, 2007) was an American novelist, literary biographer, and educator. Harris was born Mark Harris Finkelstein in Mount Vernon, New York, to Carlyle and Ruth (Klausner) Finkelstein. At the age of 11, he began keeping a diary, which he would maintain for every day of his life thereafter. After graduating in 1940 from Mount Vernon High School, he dropped his surname because ""it was a difficult time for kids with Jewish names to get jobs."" He subsequently went to work for Paul Winkler's Press Alliance news agency in New York"
"aunt from the State of Georgia, that ""She knew all the 'Br'er Rabbit' stories, and I was brought up on them. One of my uncles, Robert Roosevelt, was much struck with them, and took them down from her dictation, publishing them in ""Harper's"", where they fell flat. This was a good many years before a genius arose who, in 'Uncle Remus', made the stories immortal."" These stories were popularized for the mainstream audience in the late 19th century by Joel Chandler Harris (1845–1908), who wrote down and published many such stories that had been passed down by oral tradition. Harris"
"Andrew Harris (musician) Andrew Harris is an American vocalist and multi-instrumentalist from DeKalb, Illinois, who recorded and performed under the pseudonym ""Akhenaten"" (after the Egyptian Pharaoh of the same name). He established himself on the black metal underground, especially with his now-defunct solo project Judas Iscariot (1992–2002). During the same period, Harris also recorded and/or performed with Sarcophagus (1991–2001), Weltmacht (1998–2002), and Seeds of Hate (1999–2001, under the name ""Dawn of Armageddon""). After the demise of Judas Iscariot, he abandoned the stage name ""Akhenaten"" in order to ensure that subsequent projects would not ""suffer in the shadows of Judas Iscariot."""
"him or her how much money she owed them. In the late 1990s, Harris began to work for the Psychic Readers Network under the name Cleo. She appeared as a television infomercial psychic in which she claimed she was a mystical shaman from Jamaica. Her employers' website also stated that Harris had been born in Trelawny, Jamaica, and grown up there. The Psychic Readers Network is said to have coined the title ""Miss Cleo"" and sent unsolicited emails, some of which stated, ""[Miss Cleo has] been authorized to issue you a Special Tarot Reading!... it is vital that you call"
"as compared to slavery. However, in 2014 historian Mark Summers argues that the ""failure"" question should be looked at from the viewpoint of the war goals; in that case, he argues: The journalist Joel Chandler Harris, writing as ""Joe Harris"" for the ""Atlanta Constitution"" (mostly after Reconstruction), tried to advance racial and sectional reconciliation in the late 19th century. He supported Henry Grady's vision of a New South during Grady's time as editor from 1880 to 1889. Harris wrote many editorials encouraging southern acceptance of the changed conditions and some Northern influence, although he also asserted his belief that it"
"novels, ""The Guyana Quartet"", which includes ""The Far Journey of Oudin"" (1961), ""The Whole Armour"" (1962), and ""The Secret Ladder"" (1963). He subsequently wrote the ""Carnival"" trilogy: ""Carnival"" (1985), ""The Infinite Rehearsal"" (1987), and ""The Four Banks of the River of Space"" (1990). His most recent novels include ""Jonestown"" (1996), which tells of the mass-suicide of followers of cult leader Jim Jones, ""The Dark Jester"" (2001), his latest semi-autobiographical novel, ""The Mask of the Beggar"" (2003), and ""The Ghost of Memory"" (2006). Harris also writes non-fiction and critical essays and has been awarded honorary doctorates by several universities, including the"
"interesting to try to include that in the book, too"". Harris went on to establish the protagonist of the series. When naming the character Harris decided to use her grandmother's best friend's name because ""it was a fine old Southern nickname, I thought it would do well for my heroine. And ""Stackhouse"" just flowed right after it"". Sookie, Sooky, Sukie, Sukey, Sook etc. are historical Southern U.S. regional nicknames for Susannah or Susan (Hebrew, ""Lily""). more correctly, there are elements of me in her. [...] I wish I were as brave as she is!"" Harris said that when writing for"
"After ending Judas Iscariot, Harris had a few other musical projects, including Debauchery (2003), Desolation Hymn (2003), and Flagellator (2001–2003). He was also live session bassist for Nargaroth in 2002. All recorded releases ceased after the beginning of 2003. Andrew Harris (musician) Andrew Harris is an American vocalist and multi-instrumentalist from DeKalb, Illinois, who recorded and performed under the pseudonym ""Akhenaten"" (after the Egyptian Pharaoh of the same name). He established himself on the black metal underground, especially with his now-defunct solo project Judas Iscariot (1992–2002). During the same period, Harris also recorded and/or performed with Sarcophagus (1991–2001), Weltmacht (1998–2002),"
"of James Harris"". Characters named James Harris appear in the stories ""The Daemon Lover,"" ""Like Mother Used to Make,"" ""Elizabeth"" and ""Of Course."" Other characters with the surname Harris appear or are referenced in ""The Villager,"" ""The Renegade,"" ""Flower Garden,"" ""A Fine Old Firm"" and ""Seven Types of Ambiguity."" The collection also contains a short excerpt from the traditional ballad ""The Daemon Lover,"" in which the title character's name is James Harris. I II III IV V Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised the volume as ""a brilliant collection of naturalistic glimpses of a world with terrifying holes in"
"business meeting. He was found unconscious at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, and was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. An autopsy determined that the cause of death was heart disease. That same day, Harris had fallen ill on the train to Los Angeles and blacked out but was fine after, according to his publicist Laura Gilmore. Harris' first novel, ""Invisible Life"" finished in 1991, was a coming-of-age story dealing with then-taboo topics. Most important was that it openly questioned sexual identity and told the story of main character Raymond Tyler. Tyler, torn between his"
"and his earliest attributable works were four sporting stories published in the New York ""Spirit of the Times"" in 1843. He wrote his Sut Lovingood tales for various newspapers in the 1850s and 1860s, twenty-four of which he compiled and published as his only book, ""Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun By a Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool"", in 1867. Harris died in Knoxville in 1869 after mysteriously falling ill on a train ride. The details of Harris's early life are obscure. His father, George Harris, and a companion, Samuel Bell, moved to Pennsylvania in the 1790s. Bell's son, also named Samuel, was"
"Aldiss, another British science fiction writer, disparagingly labelled some of them ""cosy catastrophes"", especially ""The Day of the Triffids"", but the critic L.J. Hurst pointed out that in ""Triffids"" the main character witnesses several murders, suicides and misadventures, and is frequently in mortal danger himself. Notes Citations John Wyndham John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (; 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works written using the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his"