Credo Fitch Harris

Born in 1874 and dying in 1956, Credo Fitch Harris was an American journalist, novelist, and radio station manager with strong ties to Kentucky. Reliable sources describe him as a Louisville-based writer who worked in journalism and later became closely associated with WHAS, one of the important early radio stations in the region.

Harris published fiction and nonfiction across the early 20th century. Confirmed works include Toby: A Novel of Kentucky (1912), Motor Rambles in Italy (1912), Sunlight Patch (1915), Where the Souls of Men Are Calling (1918), Wings of the Wind (1920), and his memoir Microphone Memoirs of the Horse and Buggy Days of Radio (1937). Those titles suggest the range of his interests: Kentucky settings, travel, popular fiction, and the fast-changing world of modern media.

He is also remembered for his role in broadcasting history at WHAS in Louisville. Later accounts connected with early radio credit him as an early station manager, and his memoir preserves a firsthand view of radio's experimental years. That mix of novelist, newspaperman, and broadcasting pioneer makes him an especially interesting figure from the transition between print culture and the age of radio.