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Stephen L. Harris - Trilogy of World War One
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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 grandfather served as foreign editor of the old New York Herald and then started his own Manhattan advertising agency. One of his great uncles worked on the New York Daily News and then turned to writing short stories and poems. The other great uncle, the illustrator Raeburn Van Buren, drew over 350 stories for The Saturday Evening Post and a like number for Collier's magazine before creating, with Al Capp, the comic strip "Abbie an' Slats."
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 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.
For 12 years, he edited GE's award-winning, company-wide magazine, Monogram. With a circulation of more than 330,000, Monogram went to employees and retirees around the world. During his tenure as editor, he covered the Jack Welch revolution, communicating the CEO's vision to all employees. His work carried him to the four corners of the globe, wherever GE had a presence. GE's vice president of marketing, Len Vickers, who in the early 1980s brought to the multinational company the famous slogan "We Bring Good Things to Life" and later served Xerox as its senior vice president of marketing, called Steve the "Studs Terkel of U.S. corporate writers." Steve believes the editorship of Monogram was the best corporate writing job in all of America.
