He was a close associate of Frank Harris, allegedly, though, stealing Harris's diary and trying to sell it.
His younger sister, Eirene (ca 1857–?) had a brief affair with notorious American author and journalist Frank Harris, as recounted by the latter in his scandalous autobiography My Life and Loves.
In it, he describes meeting various celebrities who were living in or passing through Paris at the time, such as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Ford Madox Ford, Frank Harris, Lord Alfred Douglas and others.
It was taken up by Frank Harris in several books, including The Women in Shakespeare and Shakespeare and his Love.
My Life and Loves is the autobiography of the Ireland-born, naturalized-American writer and editor Frank Harris (1856–1931).
According to Frank Harris, an admittedly unreliable source, Fowler excited the disgust of his fellow guests at a dinner given by William Thackeray Marriott by breaking wind copiously, and being apparently unconscious of giving offence.
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There she was employed by Frank Harris of Pearson's, a magazine supportive of poets and unsympathetic to the war and England.
The story involves many well-known people, including George Bernard Shaw, who hires Holmes to look into the death of an unpleasant theatre critic; Sir Arthur Sullivan, one of whose singers at the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was another victim of the murderer; and others including W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and Frank Harris.
Employers have included Citigroup; Forbes; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; McCann Erickson; Fordham University; American Museum of Natural History; Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, among others.
The portion of U.S. Route 41 through Bartow County is named in his honor (Joe Frank Harris Parkway), as well as the Joe Frank Harris Commons that houses The Village Summit Dining Commons (operated by UGA FOOD SERVICES) at the University of Georgia, the main entrance to the Georgia Ports Authority in Brunswick, Georgia (Joe Frank Harris Blvd.), and the main entrance to the Georgia State Fairgrounds in Perry (Governor Joe Frank and Mrs. Elizabeth Harris Blvd.).