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Harnett Thomas Kane (1910–September 4, 1984) was an author of some thirty books of Louisiana and southern 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 Long political dynasty in his home state. His 1943 work ''Bayous of Louisiana'' examines the major bayous of Louisiana. In the chapter "The Opulent Teche", he refers to Bayou Teche, which flows in South Louisiana through Iberia, St. Landry, St. Martin and St. Mary parishes, as "the most handsomely endowed of the bayous" Other Kane works are ''Plantation Parade'' (a look at early plantation homes in 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.''〔 ''The Lady of Arlington'' is Kane's 1953 novel based on the life of Mary Anna Custis Lee, the wife of 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hartnett T. Kane (1910-1984) )〕 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.〔 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.〔 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 () ... he is unsurpassed for description, concrete detail, and for conveying the voices of () people ..." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harnett Kane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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