Mark Jonathan Harris is a Los Angeles writer/filmmaker who has published essays, award-winning children’s novels, and nonfiction books. He’s also written, directed, and produced numerous documentary films, including three which won Oscars. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, a feature documentary which he wrote and directed, won an Academy Award in 2000 and was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for permanent preservation in the National Film Registry. For many years, he headed the documentary program at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, where he was a Distinguished Professor.