Inducted 2025
Harper Barnes’ career spanned over 25 years as a reporter, editor and critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He studied at the University of Kansas, where he met William Woo, future executive editor of the Post-Dispatch. Harper also wrote for The New York Times, Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly, Village Voice, and Rolling Stone among other publications. He left the Post-Dispatch to become the editor of St. Louis Magazine. His books include “Standing on a Volcano: The Life and Times of David Rowland Francis” and “Never Been a Time: the 1917 Race Riot that Sparked the Civil Rights Movement,” which is considered by some to be the historical record of that time in our local history.
