[2] The death of her mother in March 1897 forced her to abandon her art career plans and return home to care for her five[3] younger brothers and sisters.

[5] The son of Joel Chandler Harris, Julian was a journalist who had started with The Atlanta Constitution at age sixteen and later became their youngest managing editor.

[2] She wrote a series of features for the Herald from Paris,[2] and as a result she was one of only two women who were present at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919.

[6] In 1920 the couple moved back to Georgia and pooled their money to purchase an interest in (and later, full ownership of) the Columbus newspaper Enquirer-Sun.

[2] The newspaper broke ground by identifying politicians who were secretly members of the Ku Klux Klan and by publishing news of the black community.

[8] Harris wrote a series of articles that helped defeat anti-evolution bills in the Georgia General Assembly[8] in 1924 and 1925.

[2] Julian accepted the honor for his wife and said of her, "She is not only vice president of the Enquirer Sun Company, but a fearless associate editor, unyielding in the face of injustice of any kind, and a constant inspiration.

[13] Harris' husband covered the daily progress of the trial, while she wrote in-depth pieces and editorials that explained evolution.

My own all-round equipment as a writer has enabled me to take advantage of almost every opportunity that has come my way.Her husband returned to The Atlanta Constitution, and she worked on her third book, a collection of her father-in-law's essays.

[11] Poor health and bouts of depression forced her to retire in 1938, but she continued to mentor young journalists until her death.