Walt Harrington

Walt Harrington (born September 2, 1950) is an American Journalist, author, and educator. Harrington is a former staff writer for the Washington Post Magazine, where he wrote benchmark profiles for Jesse Jackson, Jerry Falwell, Bryan Stevenson, Rosa Parks and George H. W. Bush, as well as numerous in-depth stories on the lives of ordinary people. He graduated from Blackburn College with a B.A., and the University of Missouri with Masters degrees in Journalism and Sociology. Harrington has been the author or editor of eleven books. His book The Everlasting Stream: A True Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship, and Family was adapted into an Emmy-winning PBS Documentary. In 2016 Harrington became a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, where for 20 years he taught literary journalism and served as head of the Department of Journalism and as an associate chancellor. He is the father of two and lives with his wife of many years Keran Elliott Harrington in Illinois.