Harry Stein (author)

{{Infobox person

| image =

| name = Harry Stein

| honorific_suffix =

| caption =

| birth_name = Harry J. Stein

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|11|25}}

| birth_place =

| death_date =

| death_place =

| father = Joseph Stein

| mother =

| occupation = Writer, journalist

| years_active =

| alma_mater = New Rochelle High School
Pomona College
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

| notable_works =

}}

Harry J. Stein (born November 25, 1948){{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/stein-harry-1948|title=Stein, Harry 1948– | Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}} is an American author and columnist. {{As of|2020}}, he is a contributing editor to the political magazine City Journal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.city-journal.org/contributor/harry-stein_201|title = Harry Stein}}

Biography

{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?158396-1/how-accidentally-joined-vast-wing-conspiracy# Booknotes interview with Stein on How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, August 20, 2000], C-SPAN}}

Stein graduated from New Rochelle High School in 1966 and Pomona College in May 1970.{{cite journal |last1=Stein |first1=Harry |title=How My Friends and I Wrecked Pomona College |journal=City Journal |date=5 April 2016 |issue=Spring 2016 |url=https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-my-friends-and-i-wrecked-pomona-college-14331.html |access-date=31 August 2022 |language=en}} He later graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Stein wrote for Ramparts and New Times magazines in the 1970s, and originated Esquire{{'s}} "Ethics" column in the 1980s. During the 1990s he wrote a column on television ethics for TV Guide. As part of the New York media scene of the early 1980s he was a member of the inaugural Rotisserie League formed by Daniel Okrent.

He is the author of novels and memoirs, including satirical political commentary related to his transition from liberal to conservative viewpoints. His first book, Tiny Tim, a biography of the entertainer, was published in 1976.

Stein's father, the late Joseph Stein, was a Broadway librettist/playwright, best known for Fiddler on the Roof.{{cite journal |last1=Stein |first1=Harry |title=My Father, Fiddler, and the Left |journal=City Journal |date=23 December 2015 |issue=Summer 2014 |url=https://www.city-journal.org/html/my-father-fiddler-and-left-13670.html |access-date=31 August 2022 |language=en}}

Bibliography

=Novels=

{{cite book|title=Hoopla| year=1983|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|isbn=0394504895}}
{{cite book|title=The Magic Bullet|year=1995|publisher=Delacorte Press|isbn=0385312865}}
{{cite book|title=Infinity's Child|year=1996|publisher=Bruna|isbn=9044927477|url=https://archive.org/details/infinityschild00harr}}
{{cite book|title=Will Tripp Pissed Off Attorney-at-Law|year=2013|publisher=CreateSpace|isbn=978-1492737629}}

=Non-fiction=

;Autobiographies:

{{cite book|title=One Of The Guys: The Wising Up Of An American Man|url=https://archive.org/details/oneofguyswisingu00stei|url-access=registration|year=1988|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=0671557041}}
{{cite book|title=How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy|year=2000|publisher=Delacorte Press|isbn=038533396X|url=https://archive.org/details/howiaccidentally00stei_0}} (memoirs)

;Biographies:

{{cite book|title=Tiny Tim|year=1976|publisher=Playboy|isbn=087223455X}} (with Tiny Tim)
{{cite book|title=Eichmann in My Hands: A Compelling First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner|year=1990|publisher=Warner Books|isbn=0446514187|url=https://archive.org/details/eichmanninmyhand00malk}} (with Peter Malkin) (or Eichmann in My Hands: A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner)
{{cite book|title=The Girl Watchers Club: Lessons from the Battlefields of Life|year=2004|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=0066211727|url=https://archive.org/details/girlwatchersclub00stei}}

;Politics:

{{cite book|title=I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican: A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous|year=2009|publisher=Encounter Books|isbn=978-1594032530|url=https://archive.org/details/icantbelieveimsi00stei}}
{{cite book|title=No Matter What...They'll Call This Book Racist: How our Fear of Talking Honestly About Race Hurts Us All|year=2012|publisher=Encounter Books|isbn=978-1594036002|url=https://archive.org/details/nomatterwhatthey00stei}}
{{cite book|title=The Idiot Vote: The Democrats' Core Constituency|year=2012|publisher= Smashwords Edition|isbn=9781301052912}}

;True events:

{{cite book|title=Blowing at the Blowhole|year=1992}}{{Cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22386175|title=Trove|website=trove.nla.gov.au}}
{{cite book|title=From The Barn On The Hill To Edwards & Shaw: 1939 1983: The Story Of Two Young Men Who Built A Master Printery And Publishing House That Became A Major Influence On Printing And Book Design In Australia|year=1996|publisher=University of New South Wales Press|isbn=0730589285}}
{{cite book|title=Rooted in the Past, Growing for the Future: Pope Resources|year=2003|publisher=Sasquatch Books|isbn=1570613885}}
{{cite book|title=Pope & Talbot|year=2005|publisher=Documentary Book|isbn=1570613869}}

;Others:

{{cite book|title=Southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of South Africa, Rhodesia, Swaziland, Zambia|year=1975|publisher=Franklin Watts|isbn=0531008231}} (history)
{{cite book|title=Ethics (and Other Liabilities): Trying to Live Right in an Amoral World|year=1983|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|isbn=0312265573|url=https://archive.org/details/ethicsandotherli00stei}} (philosophy)
{{cite book|title=How to Interpret Visual Resources|year=1983|publisher=Franklin Watts|isbn=0531046702}} (guide)
{{cite book|title=Why We Won't Talk Honestly about Race|year=2013|publisher=Encounter Books|isbn=978-1306436298}} (opinion)