author
Harry Gordon
A veteran journalist and war correspondent, he brought a reporter’s eye and a storyteller’s touch to books about sport, history, and public life. His long career ranged from frontline reporting in Korea to becoming one of Australia’s best-known Olympic historians.
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The River Motor Boat Boys on the Ohio; Or, The Three Blue Lights
by Harry Gordon
About the author
Born in 1925, he built an unusually wide-ranging career as an Australian journalist, foreign correspondent, editor, and author. Reliable sources describe him as a reporter of great versatility who worked across news, features, sport, and international reporting, and who later wrote or contributed to numerous books.
Early in his career, he reported from the Korean War, and over the years he held senior editorial roles including editor of The Sun News-Pictorial and editor-in-chief positions with major Australian newspaper groups. He was also a regular contributor to major publications and became especially respected for writing about the Olympic movement and Australian sporting history.
In later years, he served as the official historian of the Australian Olympic Committee, a role that cemented his reputation as a leading chronicler of Australia’s Olympic story. He died in 2015, remembered not only for his reporting and editing, but also for a body of work that helped preserve important moments in journalism and sport.