id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6840 George Washington Harris - Wikipedia .html text/html 3042 279 73 George Washington Harris (March 20, 1814 – December 11, 1869) was an American humorist best known for his character, "Sut Lovingood," an Appalachian backwoods reveler fond of telling tall tales. His earliest works were political satires published in the Knoxville Argus around 1840, and his earliest attributable works were four sporting stories published in the New York Spirit of the Times in 1843.[3] He wrote his Sut Lovingood tales for various newspapers in the 1850s and 1860s, twenty-four of which he compiled and published as his only book, Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun By a Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool, in 1867. 1858), who inspired his best-known character, Sut Lovingood.[3] In November 1854, Harris published his first Sut Lovingood tale, "Sut Lovingood's Daddy, Acting Horse," which would also be his last entry in the Spirit of the Times.[3] For the remainder of the decade, his preferred outlet was the Nashville Union and American, edited by his old friend, Elbridge G. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6840.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6840.txt