Corra Harris

Born in Georgia in 1869, Corra Harris was an American writer and journalist whose work reached a wide national audience in the early twentieth century. She is best known for A Circuit Rider’s Wife (1910), a semiautobiographical novel drawn from her experiences with her husband, Methodist minister Lundy Howard Harris.

Before and after that success, she published hundreds of essays, stories, and articles. Sources on her life also note that during World War I she was among the first women war correspondents to go overseas, adding another dimension to a career that moved between fiction, commentary, and reporting.

Harris spent many of her later years at her home known as “In the Valley” near Cartersville, Georgia, and she died in 1935. Though she is less widely read today, she was one of Georgia’s most celebrated literary figures of her era.