Harry Harrison Kroll

Harry Harrison Kroll (1888–1967) was a writer, illustrator and professor. He wrote the novel Cabin in the Cotton which was adapted into the film Cabin in the Cotton. The University of Tennessee and Mississippi State University have collections of his papers.[1] Richard Saunders wrote a book about him.[2] Kroll is described as a Southern ruralist writer in a review of it by Ricky Cox.[3]

Cabin in the Cotton includes the famous line "I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair."

Bibliography
  • Cabin in the Cotton (1931)[4]
  • Darker Grows The Valley
  • Mounds in the Mist
  • Perilous Journey: A Tale of the Mississippi River and the Natchez Trace (1943)
  • The Ancient Grudge (1946)
  • The Usurper
  • Fury in the Earth: a novel of the New Madrid Earthquake[5]
  • Riders in the Night (1965)

References
  1. "The University of Tennessee at Martin - http://www.utm.edu". utm.edu. External link in |title= (help)
  2. https://www.nwtntoday.com/2011/11/30/utm-professor-publishes-kroll-bio/
  3. Cox, Ricky (November 7, 2012). "Never Been Rich: The Life and Work of a Southern Ruralist Writer, Harry Harrison Kroll (review)". West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies. 6 (2): 91–92. doi:10.1353/wvh.2012.0020. S2CID 161063965 – via Project MUSE.
  4. "Alabama Authors » Blog Archive » KROLL, HARRY HARRISON, 1888-1967".
  5. Kroll, Harry Harrison (October 14, 1945). Fury in the earth: a novel of the New Madrid earthquake. Bobbs-Merrill Co. OCLC 1686733 – via Open WorldCat.


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