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Joel Chandler Harris

1848 - 1908

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Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years, Harris 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joel Chandler Harris has received more than 836,028 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Joel Chandler Harris is the 5,123rd most popular writer (down from 4,891st in 2019), the 7,289th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,201st in 2019) and the 574th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 840k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Nights with Uncle Remus
Fiction, Animals, Social life and customs
1883
Uncle Remus
Accessible book, African American men, African Americans
1800
Told by Uncle Remus
Folklore, African Americans, Animals
1905
On the wing of occasions
Accessible book, American War stories, Fiction
1900
Uncle Remus and his friends
African Americans, Folklore, Animals
1892
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings
Literary collections, Folklore, African Americans
1894

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joel Chandler Harris ranks 5,123 out of 7,302. Before him are Jonathan Stroud, Frank Norris, Ama Ata Aidoo, Juan de Mena, Inger Hagerup, and Urs Widmer. After him are Abbas Sahhat, Warren Farrell, Edoardo Sanguineti, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Enzo Biagi, and Patrick Rothfuss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Joel Chandler Harris ranks 103. Before him are Adolf Lang, Robert Planquette, Josef Václav Myslbek, George Romanes, Jean Aicard, and Helene Lange. After him are Bernard Bosanquet, Grant Allen, Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde, Waldemar Rosenberger, Jørgen Løvland, and Lewis Howard Latimer. Among people deceased in 1908, Joel Chandler Harris ranks 89. Before him are Henry Clifton Sorby, Svatopluk Čech, Hashimoto Gahō, Antonio Aguilar y Correa, Marquis of Vega de Armijo, Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, and Walter Leistikow. After him are Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Ignacio de Veintemilla, Manuel Curros Enríquez, José Manuel Marroquín, Marco Aurelio Soto, and Henry Bird.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joel Chandler Harris ranks 7,289 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Norris (1870), Ricardo Antonio Chavira (1971), Pauline Oliveros (1932), Larry Graham (1946), Malcolm Browne (1931), and Michael Stonebraker (1943). After him are Khloé Kardashian (1984), Edward Everett Horton (1886), Gary Merrill (1915), Ken Foree (1948), Robert Crippen (1937), and Walter Breuning (1896).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Joel Chandler Harris ranks 574. Before him are Elaine May (1932), David Belasco (1853), John O'Hara (1905), Alan Dean Foster (1946), Jack Finney (1911), and Frank Norris (1870). After him are Warren Farrell (1943), Patrick Rothfuss (1973), Louella Parsons (1881), Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923), Eve Ensler (1953), and Richard Powers (1957).

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