Writer-lecturer Luther Harrison was born in Mississippi and lived in Arkansas. He taught school and worked in the newspaper business in Texas before settling in Wetumka, Oklahoma, and purchasing part of the Wetumka Gazette. He joined Governor Charles Haskell in editing the New State Tribune and also edited a paper at Holdenville before coming to Oklahoma City in 1924 to write for The Daily Oklahoma and the Oklahoma City Times. His “keen mind and sparkling choice of words [were] the cornerstone of the editorial page of The Oklahoman, daily and Sunday” for thirty-five years. At his death, it was estimated that he had penned some 50,000 editorials and written hundreds of editorial discussions for the Friday edition of The Oklahoman in which he outlined the following weekend’s International Sunday School lesson for teachers and laypeople across the Southwest.