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Corra Harris
1869–1935
Best known for A Circuit Rider’s Wife, this Georgia writer turned her experiences as a minister’s wife into sharp, widely read fiction. She also built a national reputation as a journalist and became one of the first women war correspondents to report from abroad during World War I.
5 Audiobooks
The Co-Citizens
by Corra Harris
The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance
by Paul Elmer More, Corra Harris
The House of Helen
by Corra Harris
A Circuit Rider's Wife
by Corra Harris
As a woman thinks
by Corra Harris
About the author
Born in Georgia in 1869, Corra Harris grew up in Elbert County and later drew deeply on Southern life in her writing. Her early national attention came from journalism, and over the years she published fiction, essays, and commentary that made her one of the best-known women writers from Georgia in the early twentieth century.
Her most famous book, A Circuit Rider’s Wife (1910), was inspired by life with her husband, Methodist minister Lundy H. Harris. Readers responded to her lively storytelling and strong point of view, and she went on to write many more novels and articles for major publications.
Harris also reported from Europe during World War I, an unusual role for a woman journalist of her time. She spent her later years at her home, "In the Valley," near Cartersville, Georgia, where she died in 1935.