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I was born in 1937, attended high school in Memphis, TN, and graduated with a degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin in 1959. I moved to Southern California and spent 27 years in the newspaper business there, moving to Las Vegas in 1986 where I rounded out my career with a 17-year stint on that city's two newspapers on the business management side of the industry. I retired in 2002 and moved to Reno, Nevada with my wife in 2006, where I currently live.

I have seven books published, and another coming out next April. I have also written dozens of essays and articles on history and biography for magazines and journals.
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Jack Harpster As a non-fiction writer, specializing in biography, I've never had writer's block. If you do your research properly and thoroughly, you have all the p…moreAs a non-fiction writer, specializing in biography, I've never had writer's block. If you do your research properly and thoroughly, you have all the pieces to the puzzle, so to speak. It just becomes a matter of organizing all your material into a coherent storyline after that.(less)
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