Shortles’s story-telling is a product developed as the result of the influence
of his grandfather, Harris Dickson, attorney, jurist and raconteur of note who
published 13 novels and received an appreciative bicentennial award from The
Saturday Evening Post for his 100 contributions. He was published by
Collier’s, Redbook and other magazines during his career also. Dickson’s novel creations followed his long-standing career as a construction
project engineer, project manager and general contractor. His work
experiences and interactions with people during his career , granted him a
“feel” for the humanisms of the stories he tells so realistically.
Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi and reared in Mississippi and Louisiana,
Dickson’s background is spiced not only by the influence of his grandfather,
but also by his father who was a civil engineer from Detroit, Michigan and by
the grace of his mother who was an English major at the University of
Mississippi. Harris Dickson Shortle was a cum laude graduate of the Sewanee Military Academy
at Sewanee, Tennessee, a member of the class of 1960 at the United States
Military Academy, West Point, New York and a graduate of Louisiana State
University in Baton Rouge. Dickson and
his wife, Dllona recently moved back to Vicksburg from Upper Arlington, Ohio.
Their only daughter is Harra Dickson Shortle Windsor who with her husband, the
Reverend Doctor Van Windsor and their sons, Dickson and Walter live in Pine
Bluff, Arkansas.
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