City: Nashville
HARRIS, (Mrs.) L. H., author; born March 17, 1870 at “Farm Hill” near Elberton, Ga., daughter of Tinsley Rucker WHITE, and grand daughter of Hon. William WHITE; educated by her parents and a governess with the exception of a few terns at the academy in Elberton, Ga.; married Lundy Howard HARRIS, Feb. 8,1887; her first work was published in the Atlanta Constitution and was a humorous account of “Miss Puss Rait of Gourdneck District” watching the Georgia legislature in session; in May 1899 she published her first article in the Independent, and since that date she has been a regular contributor to that magazine, of articles, stories, editorials and book reviews; in 1904 she collaborated with Paul Elmer More and published “The Jessica Letters;” she has published a series of “Brasstown Valley” stories in the American Magazine and Saturday Evening Post; in January, 1910, her story, “A Circuit Rider’s Wife,” appeared serially in the Saturday Evening Post, and later in book form; this was followed by “Eve’s Second Husband;” her latest story is “The Recording Angel;” the early part of her married life was spent in various small towns in Georgia where her husband was minister; her experiences during these years are recorded biographically in “A Circuit Rider’s Wife;” in 1902 her husband was appointed assistant secretary of education in the Methodist Church and they removed to Nashville where Mrs. Harris has since lived; her husband died in Sept. 1910.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
