Biography of Daniel Harris http://www.danielharriswriter.com Dan Harris was born in Boston just before Pearl Harbor, but he wasn't a surprise to his parents. He spent his summers on Cape Cod, had a social security card at the age of thirteen, while working at his grandmother's restaurant. Dan was a good athlete and a hard working student who earned a four year scholarship to the University of Virginia. He majored in English at the University and thought those were four of the best years of his life. He joined ROTC in 1960, when no one except the French knew where Vietnam was, but as fate would have it, he graduated from UVA in 1964, began his army career in February of 1965, and he was on the ground in The Republic of Vietnam in June of 1965. He was an Airborne Second Lieutenant, and his job was to ensure the safe passage of troops on the Saigon River. Additionally, he was a platoon leader operating on various crafts including mine sweepers, swift boats, and freighters clearing the water and both banks of enemy combatants. Additionally, his company secured the ships in a port on the river that housed the American supply of ammunition. He came back to the United States with a perspective that has never left him. After a year in Southeast Asia, he is particularly thankful to have been born and brought up in the United States. The experience of leadership and responsibility as a junior officer made him a good candidate for corporate headhunters. Dan was recruited by Procter& Gamble, put on a management track, promoted to increasing roles of responsibility, and stayed for 32 years. It was that experience that provided the backdrop for his third novel Blood Feud. He knew the principals, knew the industry, lived in the area and carefully followed the court case. This is the featured piece, what happens after 15 years of writing, editing and building gradually on what you know. As one reviewer wrote:" The story is darkly archetypical: family, conflicts over sex, power, and money provide tension-crackling suspense. The pace of the tale is brisk and clever; the writing is as fresh as a sheet of Garden ice before the puck drops".Blood Feud follows Dan's first two novels. The first, Goodbye Dearie, is a love story, love of family, friends, and affairs of the heart, all the elements of a fast and funny coming of age story with well drawn cameos and tales from school days and time in-country. A unique vignette of the Vietnam experience features a surprise visit to Saigon from his girlfriend that the brass has signed off on and kept secret from the Lieutenant. His second novel Capital Crimes involves a murder mystery in a sleepy New England town where everyone came early to meetings and played by the rules until greed and jealousy turned this safe hamlet into a scary pocket of fear. In addition to Dan's three novels: Blood Feud (2012), Capital Crimes (2001) Goodbye Dearie (1999) two of his short stories have been published: "The Closer", Alembic, Providence College Literary Magazine, 2012. " The Cowboy", Folly Magazine, December 2011.Dan and his wife Joy have two adult children who live in the Atlanta area and 3 grandchildren. Dan and his wife live on the south shore of Massachusetts but spend significant time on the Maine coast and Cape Cod.