Daniel Harris Homepage

Welcome to my Homepage. My name is Daniel Harris. I'm the author of the new book, THE RISE AND FALL OF GAY CULTURE.

Thank you for visiting by my webpage.

First, you should know a little about me.

Since 1982, I have supported my literary pursuits as a free-lance book reviewer and essayist by working as a secretary in a law firm. But my career as an author actually began much, much earlier.

In 1963, when I was six years old, I wrote a letter to my sister Lynn, the earliest example of my writing to survive.

Lynn was feeling very homesick while spending the summer at Camp Far Horizons, languishing over weenie roasts and moping through campfire sing-a-longs. After weeks of wondering why I hadn't written, she finally badgered my parents into forcing me to send her a note, which I wrote only under the direst threats of being grounded and having my twenty-five cent allowance revoked. It is the sole remaining letter from my childhood and thus ground zero of my prose style, the nucleus from which everything I have written since has emerged:

"Dear Lynn,

I am having fun. Hammy [our hamster] got out today. This is one of the thing that happened to. Mary Margret couldent find her aracecer she looked and looked I look in my desk and there it was.

Last night there was a fire we saw the fire. I miss you two.

Love Dan"

Now, some thirty-four years later, I have come out with my first book . . .

THE RISE AND FALL OF GAY CULTURE

I hope you will agree that, in the course of the last three decades, my prose has improved considerably ! !

Click a link below to read more about it. [ The Book ] [ The ABC's of Gay Culture ] [ The Publisher] [ Photos ] [ E-Mail Me ]

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