Joel Chandler Harris, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joel Chandler Harris

Journalist, children's writer

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1848

Place of Birth: Eatonton, Georgia, United States

Date of Death: 03-Jul-1908

Profession: writer, journalist, children's writer, collector of fairy tales

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories.
Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years.
He spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W.
Grady (1880–1889), stressing regional and racial 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.