Credo Harris
{{Short description|American writer and radio station manager (1874–1956)}}
Credo Fitch Harris (1874–1956) was a journalist, novelist, and radio station manager in the United States. He lived in Kentucky and worked at WHAS in Louisville.{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23379633|title=WHAS Radio and the Development of Broadcasting in Kentucky, 1922—1942|author=Birdwhistell, Terry L.|year=1981|journal=The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society|volume=79|issue=4|pages=333–353|jstor=23379633}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WR5MDste0agC|title=Where the Souls of Men Are Calling|first=Credo|last=Harris|date=2009|publisher=Echo Library|isbn=9781406892758|via=Google Books}} The University of Louisville has a photograph of him.{{Cite web|url=http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/ref/collection/heraldpost/id/2098|title=Credo Harris of Louisville, Kentucky. :: Herald-Post Collection|website=digital.library.louisville.edu|access-date=2021-02-01|archive-date=2021-02-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209040432/http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/ref/collection/heraldpost/id/2098|url-status=dead}}
The 1918 film One Dollar Bid was an adaptation of his novel Toby.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/499762/one-dollar-bid|title=One Dollar Bid|website=Turner Classic Movies}}The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film by Alan Goble, Walter de Gruyter (1999) p. 895 {{ ISBN?}}
Bibliography
- Toby; A Novel of Kentucky (1912){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/05/26/archives/a-kentucky-tale-toby-a-novel-of-kentucky-by-credo-harris-small.html|title=A Kentucy Tale: Toby. A Novel of Kentucky. By Credo Harris. Small, Maynard & Co. $1.25. (Published 1912)|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 26, 1912}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PQMeAAAAMAAJ|title=Toby: A Novel of Kentucky|first=Credo Fitch|last=Harris|date=February 1, 1912|publisher=Small, Maynard|via=Google Books}}
- Motor Rambles in Italy (1912)
- Sunlight Patch (1915)
- Where the Souls of Men are Calling (1918)
- Wings of the Wind (1920)
- Microphone Memoirs; of the Horse and Buggy Days of Radio (1937), an autobiography
References
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External links
- [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94856965/credo-fitch-harris Findagrave entry]
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Category:Writers from Louisville, Kentucky
Category:Journalists from Kentucky
Category:Novelists from Kentucky
Category:American radio executives
Category:20th-century American journalists
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:20th-century American businesspeople
Category:Businesspeople from Louisville, Kentucky
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