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{{Infobox person
| name=Harnett Thomas Kane
(Author of the American South)
| image=Harnett Kane of LA.jpg
| birth_date=1910
| birth_place=[[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], USA
| death_date=September 4, 1984 (aged c. 73)
| death_place=New Orleans, Louisiana
| residence=New Orleans, Louisiana
'''Alma mater''':<br>
[[Tulane University]]
}}
'''Harnett Thomas Kane''' (1910 – September 4, 1984) was an author of some thirty books of [[Louisiana]] and [[United States|America]] South in the fields of [[history]], [[geography]], [[culture]], and [[fiction]]. Stricken with [[Alzheimer's disease]] in his middle fifties, he was unable to write for the last seventeen years of his life.
==Career==
A native of [[New Orleans]], Kane is best known for ''Huey Long's Louisiana Hayride: The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship, 1928–1940,'' a 1941 study of the corruption of the [[Huey Long|Long]] political dynasty in his home state. His 1943 work ''Bayous of Louisiana'' examines the major [[bayou]]s of his state In the chapter "The Opulent Teche," he refers to Bayou Teche, which flows in South Louisiana though Iberia, St. Landy, St. Martin, and St. Mary parishes., as "the most handsomely endowed of the bayous"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E4DE1330E53BBC4950DFB6678388659EDE|title=Southern Backwaters; The Bayous of Louisiana|title=Harnett T. Kane (Illustrated with drawings by Tilden Landry and photographs). 340 pp. New York: William Morrow & Co. $3.50|author=Horace Reynolds|date=October 31, 1943|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=August 2, 2014}}</ref>
Other Kane works are ''Plantation Parade'' (a look at early plantations in southeastern Louisiana), ''Deep Delta Country," ''Spies for the Blue and the Gray,'' ''Natchez on the Mississippi,'' ''Young Mark Twain and the Mississippi,'' ''Queen New Orleans," ''The Southern Christmas Cookbook,'' ''The Ursulines: Nuns of Adventure,'' ''Gone Are the Days,'' and ''The Romantic South.''<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/14/obituaries/harnett-t-kane-73-author-of-books-about-the-south.html|title=Harnett T. Kane, 73, Author of Books About the South|date=September 14, 1984|publisher=''The New York Times''|accessdate=August 2, 2014}}</ref><ref name=otherbooks/>
''The Lady of Arlington'' is Kane's 1953 [[novel]] based on the life of Mary Anna Custis Lee, the wife of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[General]] [[Robert E. Lee]], who was a great-granddaughter of [[Martha Washington]]. ''The Gallant Mrs. Stonewall'' is a 1957 novel based on Confederate General [[Stonewall Jackson]] and his second wife, Mary Anna Jackson, known as the "widow of the Confederacy." ''Bride of Fortune'' is Kane's 1948 novel of Varina Howell Davis, the second wife of Confederate President [[Jefferson Davis]]. ''The Smiling Rebel'' is his 1955 novel based on the Confederate spy Belle Boyd of Front Royal, [[Virginia]].<ref name=otherbooks>{{cite web|url=http://www.librarything.com/author/kaneharnettthomas|title=Hartnett T. Kane (1910–1984)|publisher=librarything.com|accessdate=August 2, 2014}}</ref>
Kane wrote book reviews and travel articles for ''[[Reader's Digest]],'' ''[[The New York Times]]," ''Saturday Review,'' and ''[[National Geographic]].'' He began writing while attending [[Tulane University]], from which he graduated in 1931. He became a reporter for several years for the defunct ''New Orleans Item'' newspaper.<ref name=nyt/>
Upon his death in New Orleans at the age of seventy-three, Kane was survived by two sisters from New Orleans, Florence K. Reynolds and Anne Kane.<ref name=nyt/>
A Kane admirer terms him one of the "undersung" authors of Louisiana topics, who "knew his state well and chronicled the landscape, the people, and the culture better than any [other] ... he is unsurpassed for description, concrete detail, and for conveying the voices of [the] people ..."<ref>{{cite web|url= http://revmoore.blogspot.com/2009/06/louisiana-chronicler-harnett-t-kane.html|title=''A Word's Worth: Louisiana Chronicler – Harnett T. Kane|publisher=revmoore.blogspot.com|date=June 5, 2009|accessdate=August 2, 2014}}</ref>
==Books==
*"Louisiana Hayride: the American rehearsal for dictatorship, 1928-1940". New York: William Morrow, 1941.
*"The Bayous Of Louisiana". New York: W. Morrow, 1943.
*"Deep Delta Country" with [[Erskine Caldwell]]. New York: Duell, Sloane & Pearce, 1944.
*"Plantation Parade: the Grand Manner In Louisiana". New York: William Morrow, 1945.
*"Natchez on the Mississippi''. New York: W. Morrow, 1947.
*"Bride of Fortune: a novel based on the life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis". Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1948.
*"New Orleans Woman: a Biographical Novel of Myra Clark Gaines". Garden City: Doubleday, 1948.
*"Queen New Orleans: City By the River". New York: Morrow, 1949.
*"Gentlemen, Swords and Pistols". New York: Morrow, 1951.
*"Dear Dorothy Dix". Garden City, Doubleday, 1952.
*"The Lady Of Arlington House'', a novel based on the Life of Mrs. Robert E Lee". Garden City: Doubleday, 1953.
*"Spies For the Blue and Gray". Garden City: Hanover House, 1954.
*"The Smiling Rebel". Garden City: Doubleday, 1955.
*"Miracle In the Mountains". Garden City: Doubleday, 1956.
*"The Gallant Mrs. Stonewall]]: a novel based on the lives of General and Mrs. Stonewall Jackson". Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1957.
*"The Southern Christmas Book the Full Story From Earliest Times To Present; People, Customs, Conviviality, Carols, Cooking". New York: D. McKay, 1958.
*"The Ursulines". New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959.
*"The Golden Coast". Garden City: Doubleday, 1959.
*"Have Pen Will Autograph". Garden City: Doubleday, 1959.
*"Gone Are the Days: an Illustrated History Of the Old South". New York: Dutton, 1960.
*"The Romantic South". New York: Coward, McCann, 1961.
*"The Amazing Mrs Bonaparte". Garden City: Doubleday, 1963.
*"A picture story of the Confederacy". New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1965.
*"Young Mark Twain and The Mississippi". New York: Random House, 1966.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kane, Harnett}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
| name=Harnett Thomas Kane
(Author of the American South)
| image=Harnett Kane of LA.jpg
| birth_date=1910
| birth_place=[[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], USA
| death_date=September 4, 1984 (aged c. 73)
| death_place=New Orleans, Louisiana
| residence=New Orleans, Louisiana
'''Alma mater''':<br>
[[Tulane University]]
}}
'''Harnett Thomas Kane''' (1910 – September 4, 1984) was an author of some thirty books of [[Louisiana]] and [[United States|America]] South in the fields of [[history]], [[geography]], [[culture]], and [[fiction]]. Stricken with [[Alzheimer's disease]] in his middle fifties, he was unable to write for the last seventeen years of his life.
==Career==
A native of [[New Orleans]], Kane is best known for ''Huey Long's Louisiana Hayride: The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship, 1928–1940,'' a 1941 study of the corruption of the [[Huey Long|Long]] political dynasty in his home state. His 1943 work ''Bayous of Louisiana'' examines the major [[bayou]]s of his state In the chapter "The Opulent Teche," he refers to Bayou Teche, which flows in South Louisiana though Iberia, St. Landy, St. Martin, and St. Mary parishes., as "the most handsomely endowed of the bayous"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E4DE1330E53BBC4950DFB6678388659EDE|title=Southern Backwaters; The Bayous of Louisiana|title=Harnett T. Kane (Illustrated with drawings by Tilden Landry and photographs). 340 pp. New York: William Morrow & Co. $3.50|author=Horace Reynolds|date=October 31, 1943|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=August 2, 2014}}</ref>
Other Kane works are ''Plantation Parade'' (a look at early plantations in southeastern Louisiana), ''Deep Delta Country," ''Spies for the Blue and the Gray,'' ''Natchez on the Mississippi,'' ''Young Mark Twain and the Mississippi,'' ''Queen New Orleans," ''The Southern Christmas Cookbook,'' ''The Ursulines: Nuns of Adventure,'' ''Gone Are the Days,'' and ''The Romantic South.''<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/14/obituaries/harnett-t-kane-73-author-of-books-about-the-south.html|title=Harnett T. Kane, 73, Author of Books About the South|date=September 14, 1984|publisher=''The New York Times''|accessdate=August 2, 2014}}</ref><ref name=otherbooks/>
''The Lady of Arlington'' is Kane's 1953 [[novel]] based on the life of Mary Anna Custis Lee, the wife of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[General]] [[Robert E. Lee]], who was a great-granddaughter of [[Martha Washington]]. ''The Gallant Mrs. Stonewall'' is a 1957 novel based on Confederate General [[Stonewall Jackson]] and his second wife, Mary Anna Jackson, known as the "widow of the Confederacy." ''Bride of Fortune'' is Kane's 1948 novel of Varina Howell Davis, the second wife of Confederate President [[Jefferson Davis]]. ''The Smiling Rebel'' is his 1955 novel based on the Confederate spy Belle Boyd of Front Royal, [[Virginia]].<ref name=otherbooks>{{cite web|url=http://www.librarything.com/author/kaneharnettthomas|title=Hartnett T. Kane (1910–1984)|publisher=librarything.com|accessdate=August 2, 2014}}</ref>
Kane wrote book reviews and travel articles for ''[[Reader's Digest]],'' ''[[The New York Times]]," ''Saturday Review,'' and ''[[National Geographic]].'' He began writing while attending [[Tulane University]], from which he graduated in 1931. He became a reporter for several years for the defunct ''New Orleans Item'' newspaper.<ref name=nyt/>
Upon his death in New Orleans at the age of seventy-three, Kane was survived by two sisters from New Orleans, Florence K. Reynolds and Anne Kane.<ref name=nyt/>
A Kane admirer terms him one of the "undersung" authors of Louisiana topics, who "knew his state well and chronicled the landscape, the people, and the culture better than any [other] ... he is unsurpassed for description, concrete detail, and for conveying the voices of [the] people ..."<ref>{{cite web|url= http://revmoore.blogspot.com/2009/06/louisiana-chronicler-harnett-t-kane.html|title=''A Word's Worth: Louisiana Chronicler – Harnett T. Kane|publisher=revmoore.blogspot.com|date=June 5, 2009|accessdate=August 2, 2014}}</ref>
==Books==
*"Louisiana Hayride: the American rehearsal for dictatorship, 1928-1940". New York: William Morrow, 1941.
*"The Bayous Of Louisiana". New York: W. Morrow, 1943.
*"Deep Delta Country" with [[Erskine Caldwell]]. New York: Duell, Sloane & Pearce, 1944.
*"Plantation Parade: the Grand Manner In Louisiana". New York: William Morrow, 1945.
*"Natchez on the Mississippi''. New York: W. Morrow, 1947.
*"Bride of Fortune: a novel based on the life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis". Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1948.
*"New Orleans Woman: a Biographical Novel of Myra Clark Gaines". Garden City: Doubleday, 1948.
*"Queen New Orleans: City By the River". New York: Morrow, 1949.
*"Gentlemen, Swords and Pistols". New York: Morrow, 1951.
*"Dear Dorothy Dix". Garden City, Doubleday, 1952.
*"The Lady Of Arlington House'', a novel based on the Life of Mrs. Robert E Lee". Garden City: Doubleday, 1953.
*"Spies For the Blue and Gray". Garden City: Hanover House, 1954.
*"The Smiling Rebel". Garden City: Doubleday, 1955.
*"Miracle In the Mountains". Garden City: Doubleday, 1956.
*"The Gallant Mrs. Stonewall]]: a novel based on the lives of General and Mrs. Stonewall Jackson". Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1957.
*"The Southern Christmas Book the Full Story From Earliest Times To Present; People, Customs, Conviviality, Carols, Cooking". New York: D. McKay, 1958.
*"The Ursulines". New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959.
*"The Golden Coast". Garden City: Doubleday, 1959.
*"Have Pen Will Autograph". Garden City: Doubleday, 1959.
*"Gone Are the Days: an Illustrated History Of the Old South". New York: Dutton, 1960.
*"The Romantic South". New York: Coward, McCann, 1961.
*"The Amazing Mrs Bonaparte". Garden City: Doubleday, 1963.
*"A picture story of the Confederacy". New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1965.
*"Young Mark Twain and The Mississippi". New York: Random House, 1966.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kane, Harnett}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Journalists]]