A journalist, businessman, and editor, he also became renowned as a liar, a scoundrel, and a cad; yet there were many also who thought him wise and good. This is the Frank Harris of legend.
There is, however, another side to the legendary Frank Harris, less known but important--the literary Frank Harris. During the early 1890s he began to think of himself as primarily a writer; and from 1895 on he was constantly working on and producing books. He wrote books about Wilde, Shaw, and William Shakespeare; he wrote short pen-portraits of his contemporaries; he wrote reminiscences, essays, plays, four novels, and six volumes of short stories and was still working when he died in 1931.
James Thomas Harris was of Welsh stock, though he was born in Galway, Ireland, on 14 February 1856.
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