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Harris, Sherwood was born on November 26, 1932 in New York City. Son of Sterling G. and Edna M. (Sell) Harris.
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Flying seemed more like fantasy than fact in its pioneer days, and Sherwood Harris captures all the color, daring-do, resourcefulness, mechanical ingenuity and perseverance that turned the dreams of daredevils into aviation's triumph. He begins with the long, slow, arduous and often ridiculed experiment that culminated in Wilbur and Orville Wright's first successful flight; he continues through the years when the great Frenchmen Voisin, and Bieriot and the Brazilian Santos-Dumont dominated the skies; and in the final section he follows the course of flying between 1908 and this country's entrance into WWI, an era when flying was the sport of the idle and eccentric rich, with vast cash prizes being offered for feats of incredible skill. Through diaries, letters, newspaper stories and long-forgotten interviews, a whole age--a total world of man doing something for the first time--is brought vividly to life again.
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Harris, Sherwood was born on November 26, 1932 in New York City. Son of Sterling G. and Edna M. (Sell) Harris.
Bachelor, Princeton University, 1954.
Editorial assistant, The Saturday Evening Post, Washington, 1957-1960; freelance writer, Washington, 1960-1964; deputy editor American Illustrated, United States Information Agency, Washington, 1964-1968; senior staff editor, Reader's Digest Books, Pleasantville, New York, 1968-1985; president, Harris Editl. Associations, Katonah, New York, 1985-1994; editor public affairs staff, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, since 1994.
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Commander United States Naval Reserve, 1954-1971.
Married Lorna Briggs Harris, September 11, 1953 (deceased September 1993). Children: Michael, Suzanne Wilkinson, Catherine, Margaret Ware (deceased 2004).