Harrison, S.L. 1930–

(Stanley L. Harrison)

PERSONAL: Born 1930. Education: American University, Ph.D.

ADDRESSES: Office—School of Communication, University of Miami, P.O. Box 248127, Coral Gables, FL 33124-2030; fax: 305-284-3648. E-mail—[email protected]; [email protected].

CAREER: Writer. Taught at universities, including University of Maryland and Stanford University; University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, associate professor of advertising and public relations. Worked as a journalist for newspapers, including Sun, Baltimore, MD, News-Post, Baltimore, Times Herald, Washington, DC, and National Journal; formerly associated with Martin Co., Vitro Corporation of America, Institute for Defense Analyses, Research Analysis Corporation, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Worked as a legislative assistant for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Military service: U.S. Air Force, Air Training Command, served as cryptologist.

WRITINGS:

(Compiler and author of commentary) Florida's Editorial Cartoonists: A Collection of Editorial Art, foreword by Pat Oliphant, Pineapple Press (Sarasota, FL), 1996.

The Editorial Art of Edmund Duffy, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Madison, NJ), 1998.

Mencken Revisited: Author, Editor, and Newspaperman, prologue by Russell Baker, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1999.

Twentieth-Century Journalists: America's Opinion-makers, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 2002.

Cavalcade of Journalists, 1900–2000, Wolf Den Books (Coral Gables, FL), 2002.

(Compiler and author of commentary) Aka H.L. Mencken: Selected Pseudonymous Writings, Wolf Den Books (Coral Gables, FL), 2003.

Contributor to encyclopedias. Editor, Menckeniana.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Editing Wayward Press by Robert Benchley, for University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO).

SIDELIGHTS: S.L. Harrison once told CA: "Write about topics or people that interest you, then find an editor or publisher who is willing to print what you write. Follow three rules: (1) revise, (2) revise, and (3) revise. Establish a specific time each day to write. Follow that schedule. Set a personal goal—1,000 words or 5,000—whatever is reasonable for you to accomplish. Then do it. Read good writers. No one can teach you how to write."