Steve Harris, Writer

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Steve Harris grew up south of San Francisco in the pre-Silicon Valley days of Santa Clara, California. Early on he fell in love with reading (thank you, Beverly Cleary) and sports, especially baseball (“Say hey, Willie Mays!”).

“I started reading newspapers in elementary school,” he remembers, “especially Herb Caen and the ‘sporting green’ columnists of the San Francisco Chronicle.” In junior high he discovered Steinbeck (“Travels with Charley”), Hemingway (“For Whom the Bell Tolls”), and remembers taking Holden Caulfield with him on the traveling bus of his high school basketball team.

Later he combined those loves by writing and editing sports on high school and college papers like the “The Santa Clara High Times,” the “West Valley Norseman,” and the “Bethel Clarion.” Through a variety of life, jobs and career experiences, his love for words and telling stories has remained a constant pursuit and pleasure.

“One year I got a small, light blue Smith-Corona portable typewriter for Christmas and I loved everything about it—the way it looked, the click of the keys, the ring of its carriage bell, even the smell of the oil,” he remembers. “It felt very natural to use that typewriter to capture stories. Writing also helped me think and gave me new ways of looking at the world.”