Harris, George Washington
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▪ American humorist
born March 20, 1814, Allegheny City, near Pittsburgh
died Dec. 11, 1869, on a train en route to Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.
American humorist who combined the skill of an oral storyteller with a dramatic imagination.
Harris was a steamboat captain from an early age. From 1843 until his death, he wrote humorous tales for the New York Spirit of the Times and other publications that were reprinted widely over the entire country. The best of them, published in Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a “Natural Born Durn'd Fool” (1867), in the words of a leading critic, surpassed anything before Twain, who himself knew and liked the tales. Harris' tales are introduced by his comic narrator, Sut Lovingood, who takes the reader into a world of fantasy where anything can happen—and does. Camp meetings, quiltings, frolics, horse races, and political gatherings spring to life in scent, sound, form, colour, and motion that remain hilariously comic.
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