Corra Harris

Born in 1869, Corra Harris was an American novelist, journalist, and essayist closely associated with Georgia and the wider South. She grew up in rural Georgia, and much of her writing drew on the people, speech, and religious life she knew firsthand.

Harris became widely known for fiction that mixed humor, satire, and moral seriousness. Her best-known novel, A Circuit Rider’s Wife, brought her national attention, and she went on to publish more novels, short fiction, and magazine pieces. Readers and critics often noted how directly she wrote about Southern culture, women’s lives, and the tensions between old traditions and changing times.

She died in 1935. Though not as widely read now as in her own day, she remains an important figure in Southern literary history, especially for the way she captured the texture of everyday life while questioning the values around her.