John Evan Harris is a former journalist and musician who became a writer, director and producer for TV. He later founded production company Greenstone TV and produced or directed numerous documentaries and factual series, among them Epitaph and Against the Odds. Since selling Greenstone, John has been writing film scripts and books. He lives in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. He and his wife Jan have two adult sons and four adult daughters between them, plus seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren (with more on the way).