Description: Historian Discover the fascinating journey of Stephen L. Harris, a seasoned writer, editor, and historian with deep roots in journalism and storytelling. From a family legacy in newspaper reporting to editing GE's renowned magazine, Monogram, Steve's career has spanned various media outlets. He's also authored award-winning books on Olympic history and World War I, including 'Harlem’s Hell Fighters' and 'Rock of the Marne.' Join us as we delve into his remarkable career and passion for storytelling.
Stephen L. Harris grew up in a writing family where chatter around the dinner table centered on newspaper reporters and editors, the classic stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, L. Frank Baum, Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain, and the heartland poems of James Whitcomb Riley. His grandfather and two great uncles began their newspaper careers on the legendary Kansas City Star in the early 1900s, where they were colleagues of Ernest Hemingway, Russel Crouse and the illustrator Ralph Barton. Later, Steve’s grandfat
Steve started his own career as a reporter for his hometown newspaper, The Wilton Bulletin, a weekly in suburban Fairfield County, Conn. He then edited its sister newspaper, The Redding Pilot, worked in Vermont as a political reporter for The Burlington Free Press and was an editor as well as anchoring the “Morning Report” for WCAX-TV, the CBS affiliate in Vermont. He also spent six years as public relations director for Champlain College, also in Burlington, and then joined the General Electric Company. Fo
After leaving GE in 1991, he was the senior writer on three best-selling CD-ROM histories of the Olympic Games. One of the histories, “Olympic Gold: A 100 Year History of the Summer Olympic Games,” won the 1996 Gold Milia d’Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival as “Best Reference Title in the World.” Steve then wrote his first book, “ 100 Golden Olympians .” Sponsored by the Xerox Corporation for the United States Olympic Committee, this book honored America’s greatest living Olympic champions on the eve of