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Harlan David Porter

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Born

in Tuscola, The United States

Website

http://www.ramblinman.us

Genre

Humor and Comedy, Contemporary, Fiction

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Mark Twain, Stephen King

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David Porter was born and raised in Tuscola, Illinois, and has been writing professionally since 1984. He is a newspaper editor and former owner/publisher of three newspapers: The Tuscola Review, Arcola Record-Herald and Lebanon Advertiser. He publishes under both Harlan Porter and David Porter.

He previously worked as Director of Communications for the Illinois Press Association and served as president of the Southern Illinois Editorial Association.

His book, The Make-out Room & Other Stories, under David Porter, is a compilation of 123 newspaper columns with a wide variety of subjects. Light reading.

His wife, Jennie, is a retired Kindergarten teacher in Tuscola. The two were classmates having first met in the same Kindergarten classroom whe ...more

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