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 One, 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 are Duty, Honor, Privilege and Harlem’s Hell Fighters, 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.

According to author and historian Thomas Fleming: “No one writes about World War I with more empathy and understanding than Stephen Harris.” Before researching and writing his World War I books, Steve edited General Electric’s corporate magazine, Monogram, and in 1996 wrote 100 Golden Olympians for the U.S. Olympic Committee that honored America’s greatest living gold medalists as part of the Modern Olympic Games’ 100 th 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 “Oscar”, the Gold Milia d’Or, for world’s best reference title.

Today 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 Steve for his many contributions to Olympic history. Steve contributed biographies of prominent soldiers of the 369 th Infantry Regiment to the African American National Biography, edited by Louis Gates, Jr., and published in 2007 by Harvard University Press. Steve lives in Anthem, Arizona, with his wife, Sue.