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Richard Harris is a retired freelance journalist and one-time evening newspaper editor living on the northern fringes of the Lake District in Cumbria.
After a working on provincial newspapers - the Weston-super-Mare Mercury, the Western Daily Press and the Nottingham Evening Post - he was forced to go freelance after an unsuccessful spell as editor of the Carlisle News & Star ended in the sack (he now candidly admits he wasn't cut out for such a job). He spent more than 20 years working as a freelance journalist and has written a range of books, including THE ACCIDENTAL EDITOR, his autobiography. He invented the concept of 'Bongo Nights' - nights spent in his ancient Bongo campervan - and has written three travel books on the subject. In BUS PASS TO ETERNITY he told how he retraced the major events of his life in an 865-mile bus trip - using only his old folk's bus pass. And in GOODHART he tackled the biography of one of the most remarkable men ever turned out by the Royal Navy. Richard has been married to Tricia, whom he met while working in Somerset, for more than 45 years and they live in a small rural village a few miles from Carlisle. They have two grown-up sons, a daughter and two grandchildren. |
