author
Corra Harris
1869–1935
A celebrated Georgia novelist and journalist, Corra Harris won a national audience with her vivid stories of faith, family, and rural life. Her best-known novel, A Circuit Rider’s Wife, drew on her experiences as the wife of a Methodist minister and later inspired the film I’d Climb the Highest Mountain.
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 Corra Mae White in Elbert County, Georgia, in 1869, Harris was largely self-taught after attending Elberton Female Academy. She married Methodist minister and educator Lundy Howard Harris in 1887, and their life together became the foundation for much of her writing.
From 1899 through the 1920s, Harris published hundreds of essays and short stories, along with more than a thousand book reviews, in major American magazines including the Saturday Evening Post, Harper’s, and Good Housekeeping. She wrote nineteen books, most of them novels, and became known for her humor, strong opinions, and portraits of Southern life.
Harris was also the first female war correspondent to travel abroad during World War I. After her husband’s death in 1910, she continued supporting her family through her writing and spent her later years at her home, “In the Valley,” near Cartersville, Georgia. She died in 1935.