A career American foreign correspondent, Joseph Harriss studied French and international relations at the Sorbonne and Institut d'Études Politiques before joining the Paris bureau of Time magazine. Besides covering French affairs from politics and economics to couture and cuisine, he also reported from Algiers and Brussels. He later covered Western Europe as a roving correspondent for the European bureau of Reader's Digest. His articles and columns have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, Smithsonian and The American Spectator. He lives in Paris.
