Stephen L. Harris
Stephen L. Harris is the author of the award-winning trilogy about New York City’s National Guard regiments in World War I, including Duffy’s War, named by the World War One Historical Association as one of the best books ever written about America’s participation in the war. The other books in the trilogy–Duty, Honor, Privilege and Harlem’s Hell Fighters–were praised by documentary film producer Ken Burns. He also wrote Rock of the Marne: The American Soldiers Who Turned the Tide Against the Kaiser in World War I.
Before working on his World War I books, Harris edited General Electric’s corporate magazine, Monogram, and in 1996 wrote 100 Golden Olympians for the US Olympic Committee that honored America’s greatest living gold medalists as part of the Modern Olympic Games’ 100th anniversary. He was the senior writer on a CD-ROM history of the Olympics, Olympic Gold, published by SEA Multimedia of Tel Aviv, Israel. Olympic Gold won the 1996 Cannes Film Festival’s Gold Milia d’Or, for world’s best reference title.
Harris started his career as a reporter for his hometown newspaper The Wilton Bulletin, a year after graduating from high school. He later edited its sister paper, the Redding Pilot. He worked as a political reporter for the Burlington Free Press and was the morning news anchor for Burlington’s CBS affiliate, WCAX. He also was communications director for Champlain College in Burlington.
Today, along with authoring books on World War I, he is the American editor of the Journal of Olympic History, the official publication of the International Society of Olympic Historians. The Society awarded its prestigious 2016 Vikelas Plaque to Harris for his many contributions to Olympic history. Harris contributed to the African American National Biography, edited by Louis Gates, Jr., published by Harvard University Press in 2007. He currently lives in Middlebury, Vermont, with his wife, Sue.
