Walt Harrington Explained

Walt Harrington
Birth Date:	2 September 1950
Birth Place:	Will County, Illinois, United States
Genre:	Long-form journalism, Biography
Language:	English

Walt Harrington (born September 2, 1950) is an American Journalist, author, and educator. Harrington is a former staff writer for the Washington Post Magazine,^[1] where he wrote benchmark profiles for Jesse Jackson, Jerry Falwell, Bryan Stevenson, Rosa Parks and George H. W. Bush, as well as numerous in-depth stories on the lives of ordinary people. He graduated from Blackburn College with a B.A., and the University of Missouri with Masters degrees in Journalism and Sociology.^[2] Harrington has been the author or editor of eleven books.^[3] His book The Everlasting Stream: A True Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship, and Family^[4] was adapted into an Emmy-winning PBS Documentary. In 2016 Harrington became a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, where for 20 years he taught literary journalism and served as head of the Department of Journalism and as an associate chancellor.^[5] He is the father of two and lives with his wife of many years Keran Elliott Harrington in Illinois.

Bibliography

• American Profiles: Somebodies and Nobodies Who Matter, (Missouri: University of Missouri, 1992,)
• Crossings: A White Man's Journey into Black America, (New York: HarperCollins, 1993,)
• Intimate Journalism: The Art and Craft of Reporting Everyday Life, (New York: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1994,)
• At the Heart of It: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives, (Missouri: University of Missouri, 1996,)
• The Everlasting Stream: A True Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship, and Family, (New York: Grove Press, 2004,)
• The Beholder's Eye: A Collection of America's Finest Personal Journalism, Edited by Walt Harrington (New York: Grove Press, 2005,)
• Next Wave: America's New Generation of Great Literary Journalists, as Editor (San Diego, CA: CreateSpace,2012,)
• Slices of Life, edited by Walt Harrington, (Champaign, Illinois: The News-Gazette, 2013,)
• Acts of Creation: America's Finest Hand Craftsmen at Work(San Diego, CA: The Sager Group, 2014,)
• Artful Journalism: Essays in the Craft and Magic of True Storytelling, (San Diego, CA: The Sager Group, 2015,)
• The Detective: And Other True Stories, (San Diego, CA: The Sager Group, NeoText, 2021,)

External links

• Profile at University of Illinois

Notes and References

1. Web site: Walt Harrington. 2023-11-26 . c-span.org.
2. Web site: Harrington, Walt | College of Media .
3. Web site: Walt Harrington Archives .
4. Book Review: The Everlasting Stream Walt Harrington, the Everlasting Stream; A True Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship, and Family (New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2002). 217 pp., plus author's note and acknowledgments. $23.00. . 10.1177/1077800402250966 . 2003 . Sims . Norman . Qualitative Inquiry . 9 . 2 . 297–299 . 144547924 .
5. Web site: Harrington, Walter G. (1950-) | University of Illinois Archives .