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Name: Frank Harris
Birth Date: February 14, 1856
Death Date: August 26, 1931
Place of Birth: Galway, Ireland
Place of Death: Nice, France
Nationality: American, Irish
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, editor

Dictionary of Literary Biography on Frank Harris

According to his four-volume autobiography, Frank Harris was so gifted with intelligence, virility, and natural talent that his ability to triumph at any endeavor, from boxing to writing, threatened the small minds by which he was surrounded and resulted in his lifelong persecution. But in his autobiography Harris admits that he may have misremembered much of his life, saying, "I am no longer a trustworthy witness." He remains best known for his sexually explicit autobiography, My Life and Loves (1922-1927), his biographies of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, and his fictional memoirs On the Trail: Being My Reminiscences as a Cowboy (1930). During his lifetime his short fiction was overshadowed by the controversies raised by his other writings and by his personal and professional dealings. Since his death scholars have paid most attention to questions of biography, especially his relations with Wilde and Shaw, while his volumes of short fiction have not received the attention they deserve.

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    Patricia Roberts, University of Missouri at Columbia. Frank Harris from Dictionary of Literary Biography. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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