Virgil M. (Virgil McClure) Harris

Virgil McClure Harris (1862–1923) was an American financial writer and businessman whose books focused on money, markets, and practical investing. He is remembered less as a literary figure than as a clear, direct explainer of finance for general readers.

His writing belongs to a period when interest in Wall Street, speculation, and personal advancement was spreading beyond professional financiers. That background gives his books a distinctly practical tone: they were written to inform, persuade, and help readers make sense of economic opportunity.

Reliable biographical detail on Harris is limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to describe him broadly as an early 20th-century American author on finance and business topics rather than make narrower claims about his life.