Mark Jonathan Harris is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, novelist and film professor. After graduating from Harvard College, he started his professional career as a wire service reporter in Chicago, first covering crime for the City News Bureau and then general news for the Associated Press. He moved on to television to make documentary films for the King Broadcasting Co. stations in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington.

Among the many documentaries he has written, produced and/or directed are Huelga!, an award-winning film about the first year of the Delano grape strike that was broadcast on PBS (1967) and The Long Way Home, a film made for the Simon Wiesenthal Center about the period immediately following the Holocaust that won the Academy Award for Best Feature Length Documentary
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