Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855–1938) was an American journalist, novelist, and poet, born at

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. He studied law at

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, Macon, and graduated in 1877. He was assistant editor and editor of Macon journals (1881–1888), gaining distinction as a writer of dialect stories. He wrote on the

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as well as pro-slavery fantasies popular in the South. Amongst his publications are: * ''Two Runaways and Other Stories'' (1889) * ''The Marbeau Cousins'' (1898) * ''Sons and Fathers'' (1896) * ''His Defense and Other Stories'' (1899) * ''Eneas Africanus'' (1920)

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