Harry Harrison Kroll (1888–1967) was an American writer, illustrator and English professor whose students included Jesse Stuart. Kroll wrote the novel Cabin in the Cotton which was adapted into the film The Cabin in the Cotton. The University of Tennessee and Mississippi State University have collections of his papers. Richard Saunders wrote a book about him. Kroll is described as a Southern ruralist writer in a review of it by Ricky Cox. The Cabin in the Cotton includes the famous line "I'd like ta kiss ya, but I just washed my hair." Source: Wikipedia (en)