Creator of Truthful James

The answer

HARTE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HARTE answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1998; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• BRETHARTE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for HARTE

Every other clue in this collection answered by HARTE, most used first.

• Writer Bret - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Author Bret - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Poker Flat chronicler - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
• "The Luck of Roaring Camp" writer - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" author - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• Poker Flat creator - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
• Western writer Bret - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Ah Sin's creator - used 11 times, most recently in 1999
• "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" writer - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
• Short-story writer Bret - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• "The Lost Galleon" poet - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Twain contemporary - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Pooh's creator - MILNE, used 87 times
• James ___ Garfield - ABRAM, used 56 times
• Prufrock's creator - ELIOT, used 52 times
• Creator - MAKER, used 46 times
• Crusoe's creator - DEFOE, used 42 times
• Winnie-the-Pooh's creator - MILNE, used 34 times

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