Paul Harris (author), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Scottish author and publisher
Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1948
Date of Death: 24-May-2018
Profession: writer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Paul Harris (author)
- Paul Anthony Harris (22 July 1948 – 24 May 2018) was an author and publisher, based in Scotland.
- His first work was When Pirates Ruled the Waves, which ran to four editions within a short space of time between 1968 and 1970.
- This was published by his own company, Impulse Books in Aberdeen. His second book, To be a Pirate King, extended the story into 1971 and caused a sensation in the Netherlands, where it was published by De Telegraaf.
- It led directly to him working for the British intelligence service, MI6, and a long time involvement in analysis of Libya and, later, the Lockerbie disaster. Following these, he branched out in the topics covered, including the oil industry, murder, and Scottish Art.
- As of 2012, he was the author of 42 published books. A third offshore radio book appeared consolidating and updating the previous books, entitled Broadcasting from the High Seas.He was a founder member of the Scottish General Publishers' Association.
- The first meeting of what was to become what is now Publishing Scotland, took place in a late afternoon in 1973 in the offices of Canongate in Jeffrey Street. He had an Honours degree in Politics and International Relations (Aberdeen University 1970).
- After fifteen years in publishing, he became a publishing consultant.
- As a result, he found himself trapped in Yugoslavia as war broke out there on 26 June 1991.
- His Airbus was bombed in the attack on Ljubljana airport and he then stayed on to report from the front line; from children's hospitals; from refugee columns under fire; and, even, from the mortuaries in Christmas week.
- This also resulted in his book Somebody Else's War, published in 1992. He stayed on and became a journalist, covering eighteen wars between 1991 and 2001.
- He worked for the London Daily Telegraph as Colombo correspondent 2000-01 and was columnist for the Daily Mirror there, during which he released 'Fractured Paradise' a photographic analysis of the Sri Lankan conflict found critical of the terrorist group Tamil Tigers.
- He was expelled as a danger to Sri Lanka's national security in November 2001, at the behest of the Tamil Tigers.
- He was an editor on the Shanghai Daily from January 2002. The publishers Kennedy & Boyd (Glasgow) brought out an updated version of When Pirates Ruled the Waves in 2007, the fortieth anniversary of the Marine Broadcasting (Offences) Act.
- In 2009, his autobiography More Thrills than Skills: adventures in journalism, war and terrorism was published by Kennedy & Boyd After settling in Coldingham, Berwickshire, he established a gallery and auction house for Chinese art.
- He died on 24 May 2018, leaving behind his wife Sulee and daughter Lucy.
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